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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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"Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed."

"We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain."

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