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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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