Quotes from Liz Kendall

We urgently need an open and honest debate with the public about what help and support they will be entitled to when they are older, and what it is reasonable for them to contribute in return.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

I'm happiest at home.

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

Labour was formed to be the voice of community organisers, civic leaders and workplace activists, whose fight against poverty and injustice involved organising for their values, their principles and their loved ones.

I will be fighting for what I believe in till the very end.

The hospital of the future will start in people's homes.

Our values are precious: the freedom to elect or kick out a government; the freedom to worship in different places; and the freedom that allows me as a woman to wear what I want, to choose any career that I want, and to love whom I want. These values are vital. They are part of us. And they are worth defending with everything we have.

A jobs-first Brexit deal means remaining in the single market and customs union.

Those who pursue the ideology of Isil are not children - they are responsible for their own actions, driven by their own ideology.

Making sure children from all backgrounds learn about opportunities that are usually available to a few, is an inspiring vision of what our schools can be. That means ensuring there is strong leadership and great teachers, particularly in the most deprived areas.

I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.

Securing dignity for everyone in old age means transforming support for families who look after their elderly and disabled loved ones, and fully joining up the NHS and social care - not setting local services in aspic.

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.

Look I'm in favour of free movement of labour but not free movement of benefits; people who come here should come to work and that is extremely important that that is dealt with.

Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.

In Finland they are brilliant at ensuring no young person falls behind. From the day a child is born they are visited by health workers who assess their well-being and developmental. The health workers work with psychologists and speech therapists and aim to identify any problems at a very early stage.

There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.

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.

Can you imagine the Mail on Sunday asking the weight of the prime minister, George Osborne or any other leading politician? I just think it's unbelievable that in the 21st century women still get asked such very, very different questions from men.

Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.