Many feel the need to hide their problems from their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own family.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

It is true that food banks are a sign that the British retain their altruistic instincts. I support my local food banks whenever and however I can. But I am deeply concerned about their normalisation.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

No one walks into a food bank with their head held high.

One anti-Semitic member of the Labour party is one member too many.

We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.

Advertising has moved online, with the rise of the 'advergame.' These are compelling online games, often aimed at the under-15s, designed to promote a high-fat or high-sugar food or drink. Advergames are advertising disguised as entertainment. If they didn't work, the food and drink industry wouldn't be investing in them.

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.

For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

We have to acknowledge that it goes both ways and that there's many social factors which will impact negatively, as well as positively, on mental health.

I want to be part of something that can offer British people something to vote for.

Young people need the serenity that comes from a stable home, safe streets, regular income, opportunities for travel and study, affordable transport, and a real stake in the future.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

When the physical threat of coronavirus subsides, as it surely will, we must address the impact to our mental health.

In the Independent Group, we have the seeds of a new political movement that can reinvent our broken politics and provide a home to people who are politically homeless.

It looks like caring for the most vulnerable in our society could be yet another casualty of Brexit, with over-stretched and potentially unsafe care services and a reduction in female employment another unforeseen consequence.

The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.

As the Independent Group, we are determined to try to forge a different style of doing politics.