We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

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.

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

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

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

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