"Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win."

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"Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change."

Change

"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

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

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"If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us."

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"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."

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

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"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."

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"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother."

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"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."

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