Heidi Allen

“Acting as the facilitator - providing resources, latest polling, data insights and donations in the biggest drive yet to equalise the ability of Remain parties and free-thinking independent MPs - Unite to Remain will help to break through the first-past-the-post electoral system.”

“My mum loved Margaret Thatcher and it was always this image of this amazing powerful woman who refused to be messed around - that was kind of inspiring.”

“It wouldn't look good if I defected from one party and defected to another a few weeks later.”

“When pressed about his controversial past (to put it mildly) and his many unsavoury statements, he responds in the only way he knows. Like his mates Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Farage acts the victim and lashes out.”

“Universal credit is not lifting up the most vulnerable people in crisis. Instead, it's pushing them further into poverty, hardship and destitution.”

“We MPs may not have a job description, but I'm pretty certain one of our responsibilities is to scrutinise and approve domestic legislation.”

“We must represent the interests and concerns of our constituencies, but also take National responsibility. Getting the balance right must surely be the constant focus of a diligent MP.”

“I want a Conservative party that sounds like the people of this country, that listens, that puts its hands up when it gets it wrong.”

“We want to change politics. But first, we want to stop Brexit.”

“That's how we behave in this country. Stiff upper lip and all that.”

“We have to tackle child poverty by getting to people when they are young, through education, giving them hope and making sure they have food in their bellies - whatever it takes - and we have to achieve that together.”

“The threat of a Boris Johnson premiership is no longer a threat - it's a living, breathing, capital punishment-supporting home secretary, billion-pound no-deal spending chancellor reality. And it terrifies me.”

“I want a Conservative party that can look inwards and reinvent itself to be the party that it is and that I know it can be.”

“As we face the monumental task ahead of stopping a damaging Brexit, healing the rifts in society and rebuilding the U.K., there is only one party with the honesty, energy and vision to do that - and that is the Liberal Democrats under the leadership of Jo Swinson.”

“When our country needed them most, the old, ideologically grounded political parties failed it.”

“I am determined to prove Brexit has not changed us.”

“No longer being prepared to be tarnished by association is one of the reasons I left the Conservative Party and joined The Independent Group.”

“So worried was I our country was in danger of total breakdown, I felt I had to do something - so instead of shouting at the television every night, I decided to get involved.”

“I think the whole way that Parliament works in Westminster needs a damn good shake up and I want to be part of that.”

“I think both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are equally unfit to be PM.”