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.

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.

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.

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

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.