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.

My family were from Jamaica.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

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

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.

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.