Dear Agha Tanveer,
Tonight, I am deeply honoured, proud and humbled to have been elected Leader of the Labour Party.
After a long campaign, spanning four months, a new generation has taken charge of Labour. It's a new generation that understands the need for change -- in our party and in our country.
I want to say a special thank you to David, Ed, Andy and Diane. All four of them have energised our party and our movement. Each has unique talents that they will bring to bear for the future of our party and our country. We are stronger for their remarkable efforts, and I look forward to working with them and all those who have supported them as we build the new winning majority that will take Labour back to power.
I also want to express my deep gratitude to you, our remarkable supporters who have powered this campaign from the start. It is because of your efforts and your dedication that we are now able to begin to change Labour so we can win again.

Thank you.

Now, our task is for Labour to begin to speak to the country again. We will fight to win back people's trust, and we will re-connect with the ordinary voices in communities in every corner of Britain. Labour will once again be the radical, reforming choice -- a new force of British politics and on the side of ordinary people the length and breadth of the country.
We will seek to build a new kind of economy that works for people. We will address inequalities and expand opportunity. And we will place values at the heart of our society: values of family, time, work, community and the environment around us.
Labour must oppose this coalition government where it is damaging our country. But we must co-operate where there is agreement. That is the kind of new politics we need for Britain.
I am grateful for the trust that's been bestowed in me. I will repay it every day of my leadership, by unifying this party and taking Labour back to power.
Now the work of the new generation begins.
Thank you for everything you've done -- you are the reason this happened.

Ed Miliband