Ed miliband

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and...

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think...

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.