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

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

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.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

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