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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers. ”
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold. ”
Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views. ”
Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen. ”
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that. ”
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view. ”
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. ”
Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain. ”
I think the Labour government did good and important things, and it's really important not to undervalue them. I see in my constituency how it helped with education and all those things. ”
There was an event called the World Transformed, which was set up by Momentum, and people from across the political spectrum have had to tip their hat to it. It's vibrant, with interesting discussions and ideas. That's why it's such an interesting political moment. ”