The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.