“but i think it does the longer it goes on i think the harder it becomes for labor to present themselves as as genuinely progressive when women are not seen to be in these senior positions”

“I really feel the main reason why many people will be voting later is because they're disgusted by that stuff and not that the Tories get away with it it's precisely because the Tories do that that people are now more sympathetic to labor”

“Kier stammer and Morgan mcweeney made a very important strategic judgment which was to change the conversation when he became leader of the labor party in 2019 and that was because as we've seen in Scotland these referenda burn like battery acid through old affinities and identities”

“but the Kia will not get a three-year honeymoon absolutely guaranteed so I think you do have to think about the long-term difficult things and get them done”

“you don't take your agenda from Reform. You take agenda from the people you're trying to serve. That's where the agenda comes from.”