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

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

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.

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

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

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

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