My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.
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My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.
I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.
I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.
My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.