I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.