Francis Maude

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

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.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

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

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

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.

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.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

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

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.

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

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.