What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.