"On balance Mao did more good than harm."

“I respect the result of the referendum and no-one wanted to thwart it in a perverse kind of way. But we need to be clear, this is not a Tony Benn Brexit, this is Donald Trump Brexit, and it's got a very ugly side.”

“I will argue for the right of the electorate to vote on any deal that is finally agreed.”

“I'm in politics to be a voice for people who don't have a voice.”

“I think the public sector cuts have the potential to set back race relations and black and ethnic minority communities by a generation.”

“When I had been at primary school, I was very good at writing essays. It was a big thing. My essays were so good they would get pinned up on the wall and read out to the rest of the class”

“Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit.”