Diane Abbott

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.