Clive Lewis

“With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.”

“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 British public deserve real choices not forced, technocratic arguments about variations of the same dead end arguments.”

“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.”

“No doubt relinquishing our nuclear arsenal would irritate Washington but what would the U.S. rather have, the U.K. able to assist in military operations or an ill-equipped conventional force and a nuclear arsenal which will never come into play?”

“Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.”

“On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.”

“Many of us mistakenly believe a coup d'etat is the only kind of coup possible. But a coup doesn't always require tanks on a lawn and senior ranking military types appearing on your TV and radio declaring that democracy as you knew it, is now over.”

“In his 40s, my dad refound his youth a bit, and started going to the West Indian club in Northampton, where I'm from, where the West Indian diaspora would go to socialise on a Friday night, and have a drink and a dance to soca and the like.”

“We can't grow as a party, if we're afraid of having difficult conversations.”

“Good businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. But, as responsible business people up and down the country know, the system too often allows good businesses to be undercut by bad.”

“The need for heroes, to admire them, to be inspired by them, runs deep in our cultural and social make-up.”

“For the vast majority of people in this country the reality of climate change is not in doubt.”

“Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.”

“The 21st century has more potential than perhaps any other in our brief evolutionary history. We stand on the cusp of computing, genetic and energy generation breakthroughs that were only recently in the realm of science-fiction. A golden age of humanity is tantalisingly within our grasp.”

“During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.”

“A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.”

“It's obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates.”

“I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.”

“We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt to such a rapidly changing world.”