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Unanimous votes are rare in parliament.
We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.
As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.
A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.
Poor people can't cut their emissions - they don't make them.
I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.
I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it.
Political status does not necessarily depend on nuclear capability.
The 2017 general election showed how quickly support can skyrocket.
Most Labour members are genuine anti-racists who oppose antisemitism.
Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.
Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.
We can't grow as a party, if we're afraid of having difficult conversations.
Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.
Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.
It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.
Tackling climate change can make us world leaders in burgeoning markets for green technology.
Climate change is a humongous challenge but it also presents numerous economic opportunities.
For the vast majority of people in this country the reality of climate change is not in doubt.
Europe has been the Tory party's kryptonite for decades, sapping it of strength at key moments.
Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.
In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.
In politics, sometimes, you dig your heels in and draw a line in the sand and refuse to compromise.
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.
Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.
The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.
Ultimately, if BEIS fails in the historic tasks Theresa May has given it, we will all pay a heavy price.
The need for heroes, to admire them, to be inspired by them, runs deep in our cultural and social make-up.
I know I have made mistakes, and I am grateful for those who both challenged me and gave me the space to grow.
On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.
The creation of millions of secure, well-paid jobs must be at the forefront of any Green Industrial Revolution.
Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.
With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.
Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.
Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.
I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.
The U.K. could become a global leader in decommissioning skills and technology as we move to a net-zero-carbon economy.
The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.
The British public deserve real choices not forced, technocratic arguments about variations of the same dead end arguments.
To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.
A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.
I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism.
I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should be.
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.
Changes that are being enhanced by technological innovation (social media being a case in point) are happening at an increasing rate.
Putting a credible form of Brexit to the people and offering Remain as an alternative will give Labour the chance to unite as a party.
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil fuels.
Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.
I don't consider myself a subject, I think I'm a citizen of this country and I think the vast majority of people consider themselves citizens.
Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.