And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

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

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.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

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.