Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.