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• ‟ I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that's Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition.

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• ‟ If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

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• ‟ We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

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• ‟ Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.

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• ‟ I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.

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• ‟ I was never a ringleader, but I was willing, when asked questions, to give my opinion. And when you say things quite bluntly, it's very easy for people to hang their hats on that.

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• ‟ Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London - which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there - seem much, much more middle class than me.

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• ‟ I wanted to be an MP who was normal. I believe in politics, I'm a proud parliamentarian, and I want people to want parliamentarians again.

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• ‟ I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

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• ‟ I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.

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• ‟ In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

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• ‟ I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

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