My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

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

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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

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?

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

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