"It's not that Yorkshire's racist; it's that Yorkshire is very blunt and doesn't sugar-coat anything."
Floppy Left failing to confront truth of sex crimes.
"I treat people as I find them. Some people's values are so odious it seeps through their every pore, but a lot of people I meet at Parliament are trying to do the best they can. They come at it from a very different angle to me, but that doesn't make them evil. You learn very quickly in parliament that the way to make change is by collaborating with people."
Interview: I'd rather be called a racist than turn a blind I to child abuse.
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