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.

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.

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.

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

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

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.