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

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

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

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 father was a manual worker.

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.