The argument in Labour around full membership of the single market is about whether it can be squared with delivering the desire of many of our voters to gain greater control over immigration. This is a proper concern - Labour must stand for those who voted leave every bit as much as we represent those who voted remain.

Leaving the single market, making communities poorer and more alienated, is not the way to deal with public concerns about immigration, most of which comes from outside the E.U.

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing the challenges posed by globalisation.

Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers' directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.

I worked in the Square Mile for three and half years at an international City law firm.

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at a conference; it was very flattering but it made me cringe slightly.

My stock answer when people ask 'Are you Britain's Barack Obama?' is 'I'm quite happy being Streatham's Chuka Umunna,' and I really mean that.

Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy - just because I'm from a similar background and profession, it's such an easy comparison to make. It's also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else's personality and identity, rather than your own.

I've had a lot of good media and the Obama comparison has definitely been part of the reason for some of that.

Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.

Banks provide payment systems, core deposit and lending facilities that enable us to manage our day to day affairs.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

We are pro-West, and we are not anti-liberal.

I don't like being pigeon-holed.

I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects... and it's even worse when they try to do it by reference to other people. This stupid term, 'Blairite,' that gets used in the Labour Party as a form of abuse, in spite of the fact this guy won three elections.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I'm blessed, but I don't know what I did to deserve it.

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

My dad always made a big thing about having well-cut suits. It's partly a cultural thing, but for him, looking sharp and presenting yourself well was very, very important.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.

I had to grow up very quickly.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

I'm boring, man.

In 2016, we all thought Remain would hopefully win.

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it's quite an unusual combination.

I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.

Although I had a private education at secondary level, I went to a local primary school where I mixed with kids of all backgrounds.