Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.