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.

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

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.

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