As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
Lucy PowellThe cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
Lucy PowellSome argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
Lucy PowellFunding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Lucy Powell