Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.

When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.

We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.

People just don't believe we'll deliver what we say we will. They don't believe we want to listen or to understand their lives. And they don't believe we are able to do much to make their lives better.

Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.

If we reduce the minimum voting age to 16, as we should, then people could be auto-registered when they are issued with a national insurance card.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.

Today we're more distanced from each other, the bonds formed at the local shop replaced by the massive supermarket or the stressed driver thrusting a package through a letterbox. Instead of meeting in pubs, more of us sit at home with supermarket wine and Netflix.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.

I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.

The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.

The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

I'm not usually one to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn but I love that he doesn't drag his wife on stage for awkward snogs after his annual speech at the party conference.

In short, that politicians do or don't have families should no longer have any bearing on their abilities to hold office or to care more or less about the future of the country.

As a mother, I want the very best for my children. As a politician, I want what is best for all children.

I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

When my children were little, I would chat with my husband or my mum friends about how we were superior parents to other people, or that so-and-so was lying about how their children slept through the night.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.

When working at Women's Aid, I met countless women whose families had not believed them when they spoke of their abuse at the hands of another loved one.

When your worldview is challenged, you'd be surprised how quickly you can find a way to dismiss reality.

My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

I don't know how all of my friends vote; it doesn't come up. But it would be a lie to say that I don't surround myself with people who have a similar moral code to mine.

Being in France means that I am surrounded by examples of nationalised services that work.

The ability to say 'I was wrong' or to own up to your mistakes is very powerful. I teach my children that admitting fault is the quickest way to stop the problem, move on and get on with whatever it is you should be doing.

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.

Still, I love a campaign. I'm never happier than when I'm fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.

Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn hates women - I don't think Jeremy hates anyone. Spend even one minute with him and you would want to take him down to the pub and sink a pint of mild with the man. However, in the hard left of British politics lurks a gruesome misogyny.

I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.

But when I'm asked a question I will answer it honestly. There is no spin here.

I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping inner city kids. I've run offender services with teachings of responsibility, empathy and understanding of the victims at their heart. I've seen people change.

Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition. That is why he must be thrown out of the Labour party. He is so certain he is right about everything, he won't come close to change.

I like second chances; I've had a few myself.

The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.