Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

You learn from mistakes.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.