Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

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

David Cameron’s message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today.

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

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.

The chairman of the conference does feel very strongly that the platform speakers must be dealt with in a very neutral way with no one being allowed extra time.

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

If you draw a line through Birmingham we lost support above that line and we lost support among voters under 35 so we are now third in that group.

I want to make it very open. We've researched the practicalities and there are lots of innovative ways of doing it that don't cost an arm and a leg. We've looked to see if there's a way of having a very open primary election that doesn't kill us financially.