Quotes from Clive Lewis

In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.

Putting a credible form of Brexit to the people and offering Remain as an alternative will give Labour the chance to unite as a party.

I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it.

Whether through the introduction of a Universal Basic Income, or through developing ways to ensure that the self-employed, entrepreneurs and fledgling start-up companies have the support they need to take chances and innovate, the £500bn investment programme proposed by Corbyn responds to the challenges we will inevitably have to face.

Political status does not necessarily depend on nuclear capability.

There is nothing efficient about firms spurning more productive technologies because years of unrelenting attacks on social safety nets and collective bargaining have created cheap labour in abundance.

Good businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. But, as responsible business people up and down the country know, the system too often allows good businesses to be undercut by bad.

The genius of the market is supposed to lie in its ability to allocate society's resources to their most efficient uses without central direction. Labour has long recognised that efficiency doesn't always correspond with what is socially optimal or, in other words, 'fair.'

I couldn't watch 'BP' for a long time, until I started doing this job, because I knew in my heart that 'Blue Planet,' as beautiful as it was, at the end they would always have the human impact, and I struggled to watch it because I felt so powerless.

Most Labour members are genuine anti-racists who oppose antisemitism.

Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.

It's obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

The British public deserve real choices not forced, technocratic arguments about variations of the same dead end arguments.

For the vast majority of people in this country the reality of climate change is not in doubt.

I don't consider myself a subject, I think I'm a citizen of this country and I think the vast majority of people consider themselves citizens.

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

As in many British organisations, subtle institutionalised discrimination may well prevail. But in all my time in the army I've never experienced overt racism.

As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.

The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.

There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil fuels.

Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.