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.

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.

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

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

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

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