I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity. – Lucy Powell
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Milibands leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. – Lucy Powell
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. – Lucy Powell
Team GBs success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchesters velodrome, the National Cycling Centre. – Lucy Powell
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell