Quotes from Wes Streeting

Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.

The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.

In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in part because my adolescence took place during an economic boom and the advent of new technology, I had assumed that over time we would all become better off and, as the white wristbands told us, we would 'Make Poverty History.'

It shouldn't take Marcus Rashford or Labour MPs to persuade the Tories that feeding hungry children is a priority for the state, and where parents can't feed their children we as a society have a responsibility to step in.

As someone who won both a Council seat and a parliamentary seat from the Tories, I know better than most how much well-resourced campaigns matter.

If we were sticking to our convictions as a Party about what we believe to be in the best interests of our country, we wouldn't be man-marking the Tories, keeping one step from their position; we'd be making the running and setting the agenda.

My dad is like my one-man focus group: a Sun-reading Essex Tory.

I have been a national president who gets the job done and who listens and leads effectively. My first term was about dragging the NUS kicking and screaming into the 21st century to make it more effective and representative.

The Conservatives have their own racist demons to confront: from the immigration policy that brought us the Windrush scandal to appalling Islamophobia at every level of their party.

At times of economic upheaval and with pressures on livelihoods, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful. In the United Kingdom, we saw that resentment writ large during the E.U. referendum campaign.

I was born in Stepney, in Tower Hamlets, and I think it is fair to say that I was an accident. My father was 17 when I was born and my mother was 18, and their relationship did not last.

The single market is unique among international trade agreements. It eliminates 100 per cent of tariffs on all goods. Not even the best free trade agreements achieve that. And crucially, it harmonises rules and regulations which mean that there are no barriers to trade in services, which account for 80 per cent of our economy.

Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement.

In my constituency I've got local authority schools, free schools, academies, I've got a grammar school, I've got independent schools that aren't far away - and the interesting thing is, whether I am walking into a local authority school or a free school or an academy, the name above the door matters less than what goes on inside the building.

In an era of 'fake news' the role of trained and professional journalists has never been more important.

The challenge is to replace our broken higher education system with one that has the potential to transform the lives of individuals and to create opportunity.

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in the interests of local communities.

Growing up with my mum, often I'd be the only person at home. She would spend a lot of time talking to me. She treated me almost like an adult; she used to get mildly rebuked by my dad and my grandad for that. But she gave me a degree of responsibility beyond my years; my own sense of agency and even my self-confidence, I get from her.

Going through treatment for kidney cancer showed me just how much strain our NHS is under.

Britain deserves better than having both of its major political parties mired in controversy about how it treats two of our major faith communities.

It's not for other people to judge me.

Every great Labour government has been elected with a compelling national story about the condition of Britain and how they intended to change it to meet the challenges of the day in the interests of the common good.

As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she used to do crazy things.