White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.
You learn from mistakes.
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
I want to write a best-selling book.
My family were from Jamaica.
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
