“To be honest, removing the whip from well regarded Tory MPs that have served their party for years amounts to Johnson and Cummings destroying their own party. That will not end well.”

"Increasingly our MPs are drawn from professional backgrounds - now only some 3% are from manual occupational backgrounds (in 1951 this was 37%). And yet at least 30% of employees are in jobs classed as manual. Our Party and the unions must address this glaring disparity."

"It's an abuse of members' money. It's as though a huge sign has been put up outside the Labour Party with 'Queue here with your writ and get your payment over there'"

"I'll tell you what happens with meaningless promises. You start with a bunch of abstract nouns. They are then pickled into a rigid centrist dogma - a code, irrelevant to the needs of one of the most unequal boroughs in Britain. And you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - Tower Hamlets - threatening to sack its entire workforce"