It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.