There are 101 websites out there for debate – this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

Finally, there’s a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

It’s very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn’t.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children – clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

I’m not thick-skinned at all, and of course I’m hurt by people attacking me as a person.

I don’t think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.

You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.