Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.

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.

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

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

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.