Quotes from Clive Lewis

When I was growing up, my dad wore a lot of browns and greens - darker colours, autumnal colours. When I was on the BBC news trainee scheme, around the turn of the millennium, we had someone come in and talk to us about what you wear on television, and I was told that khakis, greens and browns went very well with my skin tone.

Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.

Europe has been the Tory party's kryptonite for decades, sapping it of strength at key moments.

Heathrow is conveniently located for airlines to shuttle the global elite between different routes. These flights disturb the peace of millions, disrupting lessons across west London and dumping toxic gases on people living around the airport. Their passengers don't pay a penny in taxes.

Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.

The U.K. government faces three choices to deal with carbon-heavy fossil fuels: force people to stop using them immediately; facilitate a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy; or hope business-as-usual market forces solve our problem for us.

During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.

E.U. law provides agency workers with the right to equal treatment, and all workers with maximum working hours. It forces governments to take environmental legislation seriously, and to protect air and water standards.

The 2017 general election showed how quickly support can skyrocket.

People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into countries and kick off. These are decisions that are made by our politicians.

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

My message to Thunberg and all of her British counterparts is simple: the Labour party's door is open. We hear you, and we will work with you to do what needs to be done.

Liberation and equality will never come from the top down but through organising from the ground up, and our Labour movement has a crucial role to play in fighting for it.

Labour has a complex history with racism and internationalism. Political education about antisemitism and all forms of racism can help us reckon with that history, and ensure a socialist politics based on real equality becomes the common sense across the party.

We must be open to creating alliances of progressive and socialist organisations on a local level, particularly given the undemocratic electoral system face.

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.

History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should be.

A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.

The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.

At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.

I've got uncles who wore garish stuff, you know, electric blue polyester suits, and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path, he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable, but never sharp.

Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.