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

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.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.