"I've been briefing Gordon Brown non-stop, he is very involved."

"We are looking at all the water treatment centres and electricity sub-stations. Then we have our waste folk - there w…"

"It dumped so much in such a short space of time - one town had six months' rain in six hours. That kind of thing is u…"

"It might be better if we just built a bloody great flood defence for Upton but they don't want that because it would …"

"They don't just lose their furniture, they lose their peace of mind. This has been like a mass burglary. The scale is…"

"We have been pressing the idea of sustainable urban drainage for over 10 years. Because of the heavy, intense downpou…"

"When I was looking at what I was going to say during this debate, I was very worried because, when talking about clim…"

"We will have to change our current ways of doing things, of course, where too many developments threaten or destroy s…"

"We must really give special attention to our women athletes, including our Para athletes. And not just the athletes a…"

"No amount of past oppression can justify women's oppression of the most vulnerable among us."