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To be honest, I've always been forthright.
My childhood dream was to be prime minister.
There's not a single diet I haven't been on.
I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.
I like second chances; I've had a few myself.
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.
I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.
I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.
I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.
The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.
I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.
I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms.
Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.
I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.
I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.
I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.
But when I'm asked a question I will answer it honestly. There is no spin here.
I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.
Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.
To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.
In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.
Being in France means that I am surrounded by examples of nationalised services that work.
Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.
I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.
For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.
If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.
When your worldview is challenged, you'd be surprised how quickly you can find a way to dismiss reality.
My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.
The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.
There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.
I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.
Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.
I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.
Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.
Still, I love a campaign. I'm never happier than when I'm fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.
The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.
Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.
All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth have been yellow.
Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.
Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.
Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.
It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.
Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.