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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.