Keir Starmer

You can\'t meet Labour\'s tests by failing to provide answers.

Theresa May\'s decision to call an unnecessary general election after Article 50 was triggered was deeply irresponsible.

The Max Clifford case shows that when the police and prosecutors quietly hold their nerve they can succeed, whatever the public profile or popularity of the accused.

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.

To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.

From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.

The framework for everything I\'ve done has been human rights. That is about protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts where they wouldn\'t otherwise have access to courts.

If the vote that is progressive is split then all that does is open up the path for the Brexit party and allow it to pretend it represents the majority view in this country.

The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn\'t just a villain\'s charter.

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it\'s important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable \'constitutional conventions.\'

Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

I campaigned to stay in the E.U. I voted to stay in the E.U. and I was very disappointed by the outcome. And if there was another vote I would vote to remain in.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by the U.K. against Isis.

I\'m absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

I wouldn\'t characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

We have to call out terrorism for what it is, and I have always done that, and the Labour Party has always done that.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

Brexit can be stopped.

So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don\'t build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids - and you accept that it\'s going to take years to work through, but it\'s a more effective strategy.

We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we\'d actually be having an argument about those values.

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

You don\'t win elections by telling people what you\'re against. We\'re very good at listing things we don\'t much like about what the Tories are doing. But you win elections by telling them what you\'re for, what you\'re going to change, what\'s going to be better.

Labour\'s approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.