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Although this isn’t the manner in which I had hoped to join the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee, I’m honoured to step up and represent Labour members at the heart of our Party.

This is a very important time for the Labour Party.

We must stamp out completely the stain of anti-Semitism from a minority of members.

It has no place in our Party, in our country, or in our world.

I have campaigned against racism and hate my whole life and will continue to do so wherever it rears it’s ugly head.

I’ll work with NEC colleagues to ensure we have a strong plan, with concrete actions to root this out.

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We must make amends and repair the damage with the Jewish community as Jeremy Corbyn has promised to do.

We must tackle abuse everywhere, in all its forms, and against everyone.

No one community or group should be left behind.

I know what it feels like to get hate and abuse for who you are.

Online abuse can often feel like its everywhere but the power of social media can be positive too.

It has helped me raise millions for good causes during my marathons and to raise awareness of issues such as the terrible conflict in Yemen the land where I was born.

Yet we need a new deal with social media, which strips out the hate.

Online interactions inside and outside the Labour Party and wider society should be governed by friendliness, not fear of abuse.

I am for an open, welcoming Labour Party and want to see a wider range of candidates in our Party including more women, more working class candidates, our ethnic minority communities better represented, more members from under-represented LGBT groups, particularly the trans community, and more disabled activists in positions of power in our Party, on councils and in Parliament.

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Our mass membership Party is stronger because of our diversity and we must reflect the country if we are to give a voice to the communities who rely on us.

I want to ensure we give more of a voice to our members on Brexit too.

The hatred thrown up as a result of the referendum result is growing.

We have to stop this.

I’ll be a strong pro-European voice on the NEC, and believe we should consult our members to help shape our Brexit policy.

More than anything I want to make sure Labour keeps its eye on the prize of winning the next election.

This is the worst Tory government I can ever remember, careering from one crisis to the next, run out of ideas with nothing but doom and gloom to offer.

We should be further ahead in the polls.

We must get past this, for the good of the people Labour seeks to represent.

We must unite our Party around the platform of hope that Jeremy Corbyn has built so that we can kick out this terrible Tory government and build a Britain for the many not the few.