My father was a manual worker.
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
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 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.
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.