If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.