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.

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.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

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