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?

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

I want to write a best-selling book.

You learn from mistakes.

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

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.