Samantha Niblett: “I’m so fiercely protective of my team because ‘they’ didn’t stand for office and the buck stops with me.”

It's really important - that when somebody else tries to grab the microphone and diminish what you're doing - you grab it back.

How can we talk about bad sex if we can't talk about good sex?

I think if some of my colleagues - who should be some of the most progressive MPs that there are - are finding it amusing, then I look forward to seeing the goodness that will come off the back of the campaign.

I would be doing this no matter what party I was sitting in, and I really hope the campaign itself is not diminished because people want to use it as a weapon to make it party political.