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.

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

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

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.

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