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You learn from mistakes.
My family were from Jamaica.
My father was a manual worker.
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
I want to write a best-selling book.
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
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.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.
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.
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?
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.