We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win.

When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

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.

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

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

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.