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

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.

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

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

The party at its best has always been a modern 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.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.