It was interesting to see that most of the traditional Tory newspapers did not deem David Cameron’s closing speech to the Conservative Party Conference worthy of the front page.

Indeed the only national paper to dedicate their leading story on the front page to Cameron was the Telegraph, which focused on his insistence that the Tories must abandon their outdated views on gay relationships and single parents. Judging by the staid faces of many of the Tory delegates caught on camera by the BBC, he has plenty of convincing to do.

He also has plenty of convincing to do outside the party. As my colleague Michael Cashman pointed out in a letter to the Guardian: “Despite having voted against nearly every measure on equality for lesbians and gay men in the UK, they still claim themselves to be the all-welcoming, all-inclusive new Tory party.”

This is not forgetting the record of the Tory MEPs who, the vast majority of, have failed to condemn homophobic and xenophobic violence and also abstained from supporting a programme which helped victims of domestic violence.