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Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That’s why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It’s one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children — clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne’s regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades – this is where I wanted to start. I’m a teacher; I’m a convenor; I’m a gatherer; I’m someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I’m not faking it. I’m actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we’re opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it’s the villages that are adopting the MPs.

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it’s about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That’s what politics is.

It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I’m fundamentally opposed to. I’m very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it’s bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I’ve been lobbying MPs, and I’m not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.