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

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.

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

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

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.

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.