Ed Miliband

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. ”

No one is going to persuade me that eight people arriving in South Shields is going to overwhelm the local system. I think that 25,000 refugees would be more in line with the U.N. That would be a substantive contribution. ”

This idea about cheerful thinking, a digital platform for people to present their ideas, organise events around the country - that is what I am focused on building: a digital think-tank for the modern age that can help show people things can be better; the world can be different. ”

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice. ”

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