Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.

I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade unionists and people committed to the environment, civil liberties and peace.

Tightening up border and immigration controls go nowhere in addressing the underlying causes of terrorism in our society and in our world.

I'm a Marxist.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to go to corporations like Halliburton and others that stood to gain from the privatisation of the formerly state-owned Iraqi economy.

I'm a plain speaker.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

It was inevitable and understandable that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be a massive culture shock for some sections of the party, especially some members of the parliamentary Labour party.

Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives.

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.

The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's why I've always advocated a progressive taxation system - so if people do receive large salaries, they pay more income tax.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.

We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to be held back by any other political parties.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.