We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses