New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
Kids lead a very private life.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
We must make children and families a national priority.