You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.
To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.
For me, a hoodie is like a pair of slippers or pyjamas - something comfortable and well-worn that you can wear unthinkingly. Unless, of course, you happen to be a black male.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.
People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.
We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.
My wife does all the driving.
The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.
Being in opposition takes some getting used to. As a former minister, you don't just lose your job and the enormous resources of the civil service, you also have to watch programmes that you were involved in being gradually dismantled.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.
I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.
I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.
We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.
There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.
Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.
Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.
Supporting Spurs is a bit like being in the Labour Party. It's a labour of love, believe me.
