Has my accent held me back? I don't believe it has at all. I think it can be a colourful accent.

What I like to see is people like Beyonce. Here is a woman who is bling-a-ding. Not only does she look like that and act like that - I've seen her perform, and I was blown away - but she is at the top of her profession.

Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll have a very personal campaign against me there.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

Most people fall upon tough times at some point.

I want to give the message that anyone can succeed given the opportunity.

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

That's what you've got to be to be an MP: a problem solver. How can I help you? How can I engage? What do you need?

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

We never have been closed to immigration.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

I believe most people in their life will fall upon tough times at some point.

We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.

I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

It makes my life easier that I don't have to take my daughter or son to school, that I've not got to look after them because they are ill. But then, I'm not nurtured and cherished, so I will seek external love from other close relationships.

People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

We've got to be as good as our word.

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.

What does a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same times, they are wanting your best interests at heart. They are teaching you, they are educating you, but at the same time, they will also have the ability to sanction you.