For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side. When I was a young mother, Sure Start and tax credits weren't just a financial lifeline, they represented hope.
Jess Phillips
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
The desire to look strong and decisive, instead of looking human, is the fatal flaw of so many politicians, and I will never understand why the favoured path of the political class is akin to a child with chocolate smeared on their face insisting that they didn't eat the edible Christmas tree ornaments while their parents slept.
Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.
I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.
If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.
I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.
I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that's Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition.
Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.
I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.
My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.
Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition. That is why he must be thrown out of the Labour party. He is so certain he is right about everything, he won't come close to change.
All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
When your worldview is challenged, you'd be surprised how quickly you can find a way to dismiss reality.
Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.
In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.
Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.
I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.
Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.
Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.
Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London - which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there - seem much, much more middle class than me.
I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.
I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth have been yellow.
I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.
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To be honest, I've always been forthright.
One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I'm in Westminster is to stop people thinking we're all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people's hands.
I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.
I like to go camping with my kids. I've got an amazing group of friends. Just like any 30-year-old woman I like to go out dancing, eating food, drinking with my mates, like any normal person.
We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.
I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.
Ah, well, I do think the generation that came after me has changed. I think there is a growing sense that young women should like themselves a bit more.
The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.
I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.
My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.
My childhood dream was to be prime minister.
My mum taught me the power of protest.
Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.
I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.
I was never a ringleader, but I was willing, when asked questions, to give my opinion. And when you say things quite bluntly, it's very easy for people to hang their hats on that.
I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.
I wanted to be an MP who was normal. I believe in politics, I'm a proud parliamentarian, and I want people to want parliamentarians again.
I'm stunned at the amount of young women who get in touch with me every single day, trying to become somebody like me. As a teenager, I would never have done that. And I was someone who was interested in politics. But I wouldn't have emailed the local MP.
I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.
I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.
The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.
