Diane Abbott

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.