In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

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