Keir Starmer

“If you lose your job because there has been an influx of labour from another country, that is a legitimate cause for concern.”

“In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.”

“We have to call out terrorism for what it is, and I have always done that, and the Labour Party has always done that.”

“We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember, it's history again, that there are reasons we bound ourselves together as a set of European nations and it all came out of the second world war.”

“You don't win elections by telling people what you're against. We're very good at listing things we don't much like about what the Tories are doing. But you win elections by telling them what you're for, what you're going to change, what's going to be better.”

“Labour's approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.”

“In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.”

“Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008 crash is going to define us for a generation.”

“Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want.”

“After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.”

“The Chilcot report is damning. It exposes a litany of failures over a long period, including reliance on flawed intelligence assessments, lack of planning and insufficient foresight of obvious consequences. But the report also exposes a chilling lack of rigour and a political culture of deference.”

“For many progressives, 2016 will go down as a year of electoral shocks and profound disappointment. In the U.S., France and many other parts of Europe, the right enters 2017 with newfound confidence while the left recoils in fear of the future, unsure how to get back on the front foot.”

“I spent five years prosecuting some of the most dangerous terrorists in this country, so it would be quite difficult for people to pin the charge of being soft on terrorism on me.”

“To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.”

“In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'”

“A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.”

“If you really probe, people are anxious about their job, anxious about their home, their children's future. Obviously it gets translated into things like immigration, but that is nothing new.”

“When I was the director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, I had staff working at the Eurojust HQ in The Hague 24/7.”

“I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.”

“Brexit can be stopped.”