My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

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

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change