A biography for Liz Kendallhasn’t been written yet.
“Parties always win when they set out a positive and optimistic and confident vision for the future, when they have a broad appeal.”
“I wish I'd known what type of learner I was as a child - I could have done better.”
“I always wanted to be a dancer. I danced for maybe 16 years. So I would have loved to have been a dancer in the past.”
“We are a party that believes in dignity and respect for one another. We can't say that is what we want in the country if we don't behave like that ourselves.”
“We can't turn back and be the unelectable party of protest.”
“The answers we need in 2020 are not going to be same as in 2015 or 2010, let alone 1997.”
“Oh god, I'm a rubbish cook.”
“When Labour loses we do one of three things. We decide we didn't win because we weren't leftwing enough: fantasy. We decide we can avoid the really tough decisions because they are too uncomfortable: a fudge. Or we decide that winning is too important.”
“Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.”
“I'm not a Blairite candidate, I'm my own candidate.”
“Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.”
“Leadership means saying what you believe.”
“We definitely need more women in politics. We don't want women in their late teens or early twenties who are interested in politics to think they would never go into it.”
“As a shadow minister I've been working with the Treasury team for years and they've been clear we couldn't make unfunded commitments.”
“I don't want anyone being put off going into politics because they fear their personal life, family and relatives will be spread all over the media.”
“We must stop being a party that allows briefings against colleagues.”
“Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.”
“We have learned - or at least we should have - that seeing Islamist extremism purely as a reaction to what we do is fundamentally mistaken. Indeed that view - Western centric as it is - belittles the threat we face. It implies we can somehow opt out of this fight, that if we hide maybe they will leave us alone.”
“Unity is vital for any party to win.”
“I don't want to win power for myself. I want to win it to give it away.”