"Our system is set up to disempower people."

"Our own prime minister spent more time in the air on a private jet than he did there."

"I think we're in a very difficult period at the moment whereby getting the truth more broadly and more excessively, to our population, has been made deliberately much more difficult."

"Labour failed to stand up for something that really is absolutely fundamental to the union movement."

"It could well be another year until the next election, and in that time enormous damage could be done to unions financially and structurally. They could essentially be destroyed."

"There needs to be an understanding in the Labour leadership in particular, about the role that trade unions will always play no matter who's in government."

"The governing party is sort of collapsing before our eyes. I'm trying to be as objective as I can on this, but literally it's collapsing."

"It's almost as if we live in this parallel universe for the Conservatives."

"The lack of any vision, the multiple mistakes, lack of integrity and honesty suggests to me even lifelong conservatives want to see the back of them."