I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

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.

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

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.

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

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

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.