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Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.Collection: Sadiq
Thousands of people's lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You'd think a very Tory thing to do. Sadly not, under Cameron's leadership.Collection: Sadiq
Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.Collection: Sadiq
Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.Collection: Sadiq
Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.Collection: Sadiq
You know that running bug people talk about? Well, I've been well and truly bitten.Collection: Sadiq
I never understood how much running changes your life. I'm now obsessed. When not trying to beat my personal best, I'm talking to other people about theirs, reading training advice or eating the perfect balance of carbs and protein.Collection: Sadiq
My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.Collection: Sadiq
Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.Collection: Sadiq
Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.Collection: Sadiq
I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.Collection: Sadiq
The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.Collection: Sadiq
We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.Collection: Sadiq
Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.Collection: Sadiq
I look forward to the day that I can go with my daughters to the polling station for them to cast their first vote.Collection: Sadiq
Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.Collection: Sadiq
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.Collection: Sadiq
The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.Collection: Sadiq
I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.Collection: Sadiq
It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.Collection: Sadiq
For too long, some lazy politicians have engaged leaders of Muslim communities as a shortcut to engaging disenfranchised Muslim citizens.Collection: Sadiq
I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.Collection: Sadiq
Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.Collection: Sadiq
People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.Collection: Sadiq
Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.Collection: Sadiq
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.Collection: Sadiq
It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.Collection: Sadiq
Muslims, like most other voters, don't just want 'one of their own,' they want someone who best represents their values.Collection: Sadiq
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.Collection: Sadiq
We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are also prevalent in the white working class. Political extremism and disengagement is mirrored between white and ethnic minority communities.Collection: Sadiq
I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.Collection: Sadiq
When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.Collection: Sadiq
London made my family and myself.Collection: Sadiq
One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.Collection: Sadiq
My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.Collection: Sadiq
London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said - the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.Collection: Sadiq
I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.Collection: Sadiq
I've been blessed - every job I've had I've loved, whether it's as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.Collection: Sadiq
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.Collection: Sadiq