It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
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.
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
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.
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.
I want to write a best-selling book.
My father was a manual worker.
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.
You learn from mistakes.
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
