” 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. “
” 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. “
” One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I’m in Westminster is to stop people thinking we’re all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people’s hands. “
” I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I’m cleverer and funnier. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests. “
” 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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