I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.
Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.
Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.
Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.
Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.
