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“The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.”
“I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.”
“Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.”
“Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.”
“To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.”
“I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.”
“People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates. This is a warped, empty type of freedom, in which the powerful are free to exploit the vulnerable.”
“I'm a prolific tweeter. It allows me to respond to the news of the day or comment on something Jacob Rees-Mogg has said on behalf of my constituents.”
“My wife does all the driving.”
“I spend much of my time in a suit and tie with my top button done up and my sensible shoes neatly polished. When it comes to work, my appearance is about communicating professionalism and confidence.”
“Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.”
“When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.”
“White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.”
“Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.”
“People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.”
“We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.”
“As the MP for an area like Tottenham you quickly learn that the factors leading to unemployment are as numerous as they are diverse.”
“We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black people be put off by the notion that university is somehow not for them.”
“We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who want to label London's global attraction a flaw rather than a strength.”
“Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality and fairness.”