I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

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.

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].

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.