Clive Lewis

“Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.”

“The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.”

“Labour has a complex history with racism and internationalism. Political education about antisemitism and all forms of racism can help us reckon with that history, and ensure a socialist politics based on real equality becomes the common sense across the party.”

“Changes that are being enhanced by technological innovation (social media being a case in point) are happening at an increasing rate.”

“People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into countries and kick off. These are decisions that are made by our politicians.”

“Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.”

“We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.”

“It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.”

“I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it.”

“Leadership and punching above your weight doesn't necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries.”

“The U.K. could become a global leader in decommissioning skills and technology as we move to a net-zero-carbon economy.”

“My feminist values are rooted in my socialist values. The number of women CEOs in Britain's biggest companies is irrelevant if they pay their women workers poverty wages or discriminate against black employees.”

“The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.”

“In the U.S., requiring voters to produce photo ID in order to vote is just part of a much wider and more open system of discrimination against poor and ethnic minority voters.”

“I've got uncles who wore garish stuff, you know, electric blue polyester suits, and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path, he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable, but never sharp.”

“Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.”

“Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.”

“In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain popular, long-term political support.”

“Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.”

“My time as an MP has made me more aware of the power dynamics that exist in society: between men and women, between people of different backgrounds and ethnicities, between those in positions of power and those with very little of it.”