If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.