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?

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

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

My father was a manual worker.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.