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.

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

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

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