For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

We've been seen for a long time as a party which hasn't been very open to gay people. That's wrong.