“The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed”

I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

People have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks.

There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

For me it’s more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.

But also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life.

We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat

And I for one don’t believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Suen Le! (it means, “Let it be.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.

Most of them never really listen to music.