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?

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

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

You learn from mistakes.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

My family were from Jamaica.