I've now launched a new website for my Labour leadership campaign at www.edballs4labour.org

Through the website you can find out my vision for the future of our Party and our country and - more importantly - you can let me know your views on how we take the Labour Party forward, to keep fighting for fairness.

The Lib Dem deputy leader is absolutely right to say that VAT...

Over 13 years, Labour made many big decisions on tax and spending: how to reduce the national debt in 1997, how to fund extra NHS investment in 2001, and last year how to reduce the deficit once the recovery was secured.

Each time we looked at whether it was right to raise VAT – and concluded it was not.

We reached that conclusion because - as I have said many times before in public and in private - VAT is the only tax that everyone has to pay, whether they are unemployed or pensioners, and because it hits couples with children the hardest. It is therefore always the least fair option for raising tax.

It was a wet start to the day in Glasgow. But that didn't deter John Robertson MP, Bill Butler MSP, local councillor Anne McTaggert and their team of activists from knocking on doors this morning - before we all went to the Labour leadership election hustings at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall.