And unless Labour is able to embrace a politics of aspiration and inclusion, a politics that defies some of the traditional labels that have dogged politics for so long, then it's not going to win".
This is something those on the left who embrace feminism and those who reject it on the right should understand.
Policymakers and politicians usually embrace this "political blackness" when addressing ethnic minority communities, but it makes as little sense when it comes to predicting voting as it does in other areas of life.
"It is surprising that individuals at an institution of higher learning claiming to embrace the notion of academic and intellectual freedom would display intolerance and shout down a voice in the debate they simply don't agree with," Pyne said through a spokesman.
A sort of photographic antithesis of Bobby Moore's post shirt-swap embrace with Pelé in 1970, it is one of the iconic World Cup images.
They meet on Pooley's day off, descending into joyous laughter before they embrace as only survivors do in a country running on a "no touch" policy.
While it is undoubtedly positive that the world (and by the world, we mean the press and social media) has appeared to embrace Jenner and all that she represents, it is less pleasing to see how she has, overnight, become subject to the same treatment as every other woman in the mainstream media.
One of the main themes of the conference was that the only way forward for the left is to move beyond tribal politics, which does so much to alienate voters, and instead embrace a more open form of politics where progressive forces from all parties work together.
If Missouri or any other American state with similar conflicts – racial, religious, political, whatever – have any hope of healing, it lies with those who are serious and sturdy enough to ditch their petrified opinions, to embrace complexity and to absorb facts that make them uneasy.
He also urged the EU to "embrace Turkey", and added, provocatively: "If Russia did not join the west, it will become a satellite of China".
It is as much a challenge to the left, and our commitment to the state and centralisation, as it is to the right with its unquestioning embrace of the market.
