Everything about my politics has been about the future.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.