We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.

We believe that leaders should be following the masses. We only ran in leadership campaigns to get our ideas across, to use it as a platform.

I think that I was the first MP to call for the nationalisation of Northern Rock, although that is hardly surprising because I have been calling for the nationalisation of the financial sector for 30 years or more.

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.

Those who commit gun crimes and those who enable them should know this: We're coming after you.