This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

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Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

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We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

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I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

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One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.

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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

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I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

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One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

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Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

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We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

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