We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you're either an uber-loyalist babe, or you're a rebel. There isn't any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn't space in public debate for that.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

I wear the chips that I have on my shoulder with pride.

Everybody gets paranoid about deselections. I do.

I've been in politics a long time and the only way you survive is by getting the hide of a rhino.

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

To give him his credit, I never thought I'd say this, but Donald Trump was talking about the importance of investing in jobs and infrastructure and in the economies across the country, not just the main cities, and that's right.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that was hard because the expectations were so low in the school.

We got evicted from our house in Guildford. We were chucked out and had nowhere to go. We ended up in social housing. And it was very hard for my mum. My brothers were five and three.

There's a particularly nasty element when lots of men get together sometimes.

I don't think you negotiate with people by going around telling them that they're like Nazi guards or it's all about prosecco.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

If I had a row with my husband, it's not going to work my saying, 'Right, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to walk out.' It doesn't work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, 'I have a problem. You have a problem. Let's try and sort this out together.' You don't come to an agreement with people who you're falling out with badly.