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

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

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

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

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

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.