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I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.
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Fancy
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Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.
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Migration
Brexit
Guarantee
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When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.
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Bombs
Defense
Rain
Rush
Syrian
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I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
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Dutch
Thames
Tower
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I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.
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Make A Difference
Minister
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I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.
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Cambridge
Graduate
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Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
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Extremism
Sergeant
Nurtured
Recruiting
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Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.
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Concern
Immigration
Leave
Good Reason
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The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
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Autism
Delayed
Diagnosis
Tragedy
Waking
Scale
Slowly
Waking Up
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Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
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Blame
Desperate
Escape
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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.
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Credible
Poverty
Worst
Acknowledging
Simply
Issue
Tackle
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Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
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Gathering
Towns
Yorkshire
Villages
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I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
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Packing
Toothpaste
Everyone Else
Factory
Gap
Summers
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Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
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Driving
Population
Actively
Alienate
Towards
Indeed
Refusing
Sunni
Tackle
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Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
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Cambridge
Class
Holiday
Odd
Shock
Anywhere
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I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
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Brussels
Jump
Plane
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I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.
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Born
Grew
Labour
Realisation
Mattered
Spoke
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The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.
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Mike
Peacock
Predecessors
Yorkshire
Elizabeth
Immediate
Wood
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In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.
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Centre
Civilians
Defeat
Outspoken
Protected
Advocate
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Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.
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Immigration
India
Pakistan
Across
Catholics
Communities
Deeply
Enhanced
Irish
Muslims
Principally
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In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.
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Afghan
Elders
International Community
Sustained
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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
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Oxfam
Poverty
Ten
Years
Child
Aid
Decade
Save
Sector
Ten Years
Voluntary
Worked
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Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.
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Britain
Elsewhere
European Union
Membership
Security
Stability
Yorkshire
Businesses
Cause
Championing
Forward
Passionately
Union
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I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
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Britain
Yorkshire
Bred
Prouder
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While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
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Celebrate
Time Travel Me
Surprises
Divide
Time And Time
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I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.
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Action
Chosen
Impossible
Argued
Cause
Chicken
Egg
How Much
Reaction
Symptom
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It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north.
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Committed
County
Economic
Growth
Regions
Resources
City
Genuinely
Happily
North
Powerhouse
Promote
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My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.
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Busy
Mortgage
Newspapers
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We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.
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Fall
Immigration
Vote
Voters
Address
Allow
Concerns
Deal
Leave
Far
Remaining
Spin
We Cannot
While
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Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks.
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Jobs
Finance
Access
Employers
Including
Skills
Staff
People Help Young
Address
Banks
Businesses
Leaves
Local
Local Level
Network
Reliable
Shortages
Sources
Young People
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Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity.
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Cities
Commitment
Compatible
Growth
Prosperity
Regions
Resources
Stripping
Worthy
Yorkshire
Drive
Cuts
Deliver
Folk
Fools
Northern
Powerhouse
Simultaneously
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My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.
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Jobs
Cambridge
Hard Work
Summer
Tough
Family Work Money
Absolutely
Commitments
Earn
Factory
Finding
Learnt
Managing
Outside
Pocket
Terms
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Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world.
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Biscuits
Boast
Chips
Engineering
Precision
Proportion
Range
Best World People
Beds
Fish
Industries
Manufacture
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