Anti War Activists

"For the last 40 years... we've been told that it's good - advanced even - for our country to manufacture less and less and rely instead on cheap labour abroad to produce imports, while we focus on the City of London and the finance sector. A lack of support for manufacturing industry is sucking the dynamism out of our economy, pay from the pockets of our workers and any hope of secure, well-paid jobs from a generation of young people."

"When it comes to Brexit, this government has delivered more delays and more cancellations than Northern Rail."

"One way or another, we will do everything in our power to prevent no deal and oppose a damaging Tory Brexit based on Theresa May's overwhelmingly rejected deal. That's why, in line with our conference policy, we are committed to also putting forward or supporting an amendment in favour of a public vote to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit being forced on the country."

"[Linking criticism over antisemitism to his stance on the Middle East] I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that my clearly stated support for the right of Palestinian people to be able to live in peace free from occupation, free from being under siege as in Gaza, and for those living in refugee camps … played a factor in all this. Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't wait to condemn me for my support for the Palestinian people."

"people who dish out anti-Semitic poison need to understand: you do not do it in my name"

"I described those pro-Israel activists as Zionists, in the accurate political sense and not as a euphemism for Jewish people - and that is made clear in the rest of my speech that day. I am now more careful with how I might use the term 'Zionist' because a once self-identifying political term has been increasingly hijacked by anti-Semites as code for Jews."

"This government's shambolic handling of Brexit is compounding years of damaging austerity."

"[I will campaign for Remain to stop] no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit"

"How has she responded to the Russian Government's request for a sample of the agent used in Salisbury attack to run its own tests? Has high-resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent and has that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production or the identity of its perpetrators? And can the Prime Minister update the House on what conversations, if any, she has had with the Russian Government?"

"A worker, a carpenter from Nazareth, Jesus spent his life challenging the status quo, reaching out to the most vulnerable in society and bringing a message of hope. These values, Christian values, were integral to the founding of the Labour Party. Jesus was a radical who taught us how to live when some of us have so much and others have so little. Nothing sums up his radical beliefs better than when he said, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” In the Labour Party, we want to transform society so there are no longer some people who have obscene incomes and privilege while others go hungry and without a home to call their own."

"If the government believes it is still a possibility that Russia negligently lost control of a military-grade nerve agent, what action is being taken through the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) with our allies?"

"We have long argued that a customs union is a viable option for the final deal. So Labour would seek to negotiate a new comprehensive UK-EU customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs with Europe and to help avoid any need for a hard border in Northern Ireland."

"[Labour will be] looking for a Brexit that puts the working people first"

"The best defence for Britain is a government actively engaged in seeking political solutions to the world's problems"

"[Labour is] not supporting or calling for a second referendum"

"The technology of the digital age should empower us both as workers and consumers, allowing us to co-operate on a scale in a way that wasn't possible in the past"

"Some were extremely irresponsible in what they did and said, but we have to recognise it was the largest participation of people in an electoral process ever in Britain and they chose to leave."

"Rent controls exist in many cities across the world. And I want our cities to have those powers too and tenants to have those protections."

"[The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has] probably claimed more lives than any other conflict since the Second World War"

"Labour would seek a final deal that gives full access to European markets and maintains the benefits of the single market and the customs union"

"The manifesto makes it very clear that the Labour Party has come to a decision and is committed to Trident. We're also going to look at the real security needs of this country on other areas such as cyber security, which I think the attack on our NHS last week proved there needs to be some serious re-examination of our defences against those kind of attacks."

"We have had a referendum which came to a decision. The negotiations are still ongoing, albeit well behind schedule, and we've set out the kind of relationship we want to have with Europe in the future."

"If we didn't have migrant workers either from outside Europe or within Europe working in our National Health Service... it would be in an even worse state than it is at the present time."

"There’s a lot of debate about what’s happening in the Labour party at the present time. And I am inundated with questions, questions, questions all the time. And I have patience that is infinite to answer questions, questions, questions. But one I got today really did puzzle me. They said: are you coping with the pressure that’s on you? I said: 'There’s no pressure on me. None whatsoever.' The real pressure, the real pressure – real pressure – is when you don’t have enough money to feed your kids, when you don’t have a roof over your head, when you are wondering if you are going to be cared for. ... [The rise in homeless under the Conservative government] People tell me that Labour will be more appealing when it starts talking about these sorts of things and starts talking about something else. Let me just say this one moral point: if you are well housed and have a reasonable job and are kind of doing ok, is anyone actually comfortable stepping over a homeless person in the street in the doorstep outside your home?”"

"I talk to people in the Muslim community, I talk to people in mosques, I talk to people in churches, I talk to people that go to synagogues, all kinds of different faiths and different groups. I think what Prevent has often done is seen to target the Muslim community, not anybody else, looks to say there is a kind of suspicion over the whole community and it's actually often counter-productive."

"The British people have made their decision. We must respect that result and Article 50 has to be invoked now so that we negotiate an exit from European Union. Obviously there has to be strategy but the whole point of the referendum was that the public would be asked their opinion. They've given their opinion. It is up for parliament to now act on that opinion."

"We want to defend the very many gains made by trade unions across Europe that have brought us better working conditions - longer holidays, less discrimination and maternity and paternity leave"

"I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote by MPs has no constitutional legitimacy. We are a democratic party, with a clear constitution. Our people need Labour Party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite behind my leadership at a critical time for our country."

"We believe a leave vote will put many of those things seriously and immediately at risk. We also want to extend those rights and we best extend those rights by working with trade unions, labour parties and socialist parties all across Europe in the interest of the working people all across the continent."

"It's 2017. This sexism must be consigned to history. Shame on the Daily Mail."

"Labour is clear that we should remain in the EU. But we too want to see reform,"

"If you do what you believe in, you’re strong. It’s when you don’t do what you believe in that you’re weak. And we are strong."

"Our economy is fragile so we must begin to rebuild it. Our duty now is to move forward in a calm and conciliatory manner to build a new relationship with Europe and build a Britain that works for everyone in every part of this country."

"Let me be clear, Labour will not support any Brexit deal that includes the return of a hard border to this island."

"[I will] work with MPs across the Commons to prevent no deal, break the deadlock and build support for our alternative plan"

"The government is trying to run down the clock in an attempt to blackmail this House and the country into supporting a botched deal"

"I am reaching out to all groups in Parliament to try and prevent a no-deal Brexit which I think would be very damaging"

"We welcome them [foreign doctors], we work with them and we're proud of what they do"

"An open border is a symbol of peace, two communities living and working together after years of conflict, communities who no longer feel that their traditions are under threat,"

"I don't support any attacks, therefore I criticise them all."

"at the moment we're campaigning because we want this sense of unity across Europe"

"[It is] perfectly possible to be critical [of EU shortcomings] and still be convinced we need to remain a member"

"If we understand terrorism to describe the indiscriminate killing of civilians, in breach of international law, then of course Hamas is a terrorist group. The targeting of hospitals, refugee camps and so-called safe zones by the Israeli army are acts of terror too; and the killing of more than 11,000 people, half of whom are children, cannot possibly be understood as acts of self-defence. We should not entertain questions from those who have no interest in applying this basic consistency."

"Theresa May should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit to honour a president who rips up vital international treaties, backs climate change denial and uses racist and misogynist rhetoric. Maintaining an important relationship with the United States does not require the pomp and ceremony of a state visit. It is disappointing that the prime minister has again opted to kowtow to this US administration. I would welcome a meeting with President Trump to discuss all matters of interest."

"[The Maastricht Treaty] takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers who will impose the economic policies of price stability, deflation and high unemployment throughout the European Community"

"The government must remove clearly, once and for all, the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal exit from the EU and all the chaos that would come as a result of that"

"Take no-deal off the table now please prime minister."

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

"In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God."

"Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle."