People have asked me why I left it until the last week to submit my nomination for David Miliband as Labour leader. The reason was simple. I wanted to listen to what all potential candidates had to say before making my own nomination. All of the candidates have strengths but my first instinct was to back David and this is why I have stuck to it. David is right to emphasise the importance of putting community organisation at the heart of Labour’s strategy for renewal. It is a theme I have always tried to follow in my own Birmingham constituency and I believe it is vital to developing the radical cutting edge Labour needs for the future. It’s about doing our politics differently. It’s about embracing a pluralism that develops our party as a catalyst for progressive values in a broader movement for change that reaches beyond conventional party politics.