“It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market ...” — Wes Streeting Quote

It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.

The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.

Going through treatment for kidney cancer showed me just how much strain our NHS is under.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn't very happy about.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

The one good thing to come out of the entire Brexit saga is that at least we, the poor hitherto unsuspecting voters, now know that many of our elected representatives don't respect us at all.

Brexit is horrible isn't it? I don't like it.

You might want a certain type of Brexit deal, but you can't get it if the numbers aren't there.

Brexit is not a viable path for Britain.