Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

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

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.