My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.
I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.
Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.
Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.
I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.
Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.
Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
