"I won't say how progressive this parliament is on LGBT rights until it's met and we see what it does".
She appears in the party political broadcast A Tale of Two Cities, a short film contrasting the "modern and progressive" Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh with the "antiquated and out of touch" Palace of Westminster.
They said progressives in parliament needed to reduce the Conservatives' 12-seat majority in parliament for crucial votes on grammar schools, the Human Rights Act and welfare.
"One is modern and progressive and a parliament committed to serving a nation engaged in the political process, a nation full of hope, expectation and aspiration.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, rreiterated his support for a graduate tax to replace fees, and tried ot stoke a Liberal Democrat rebellion by promising to work with progressive forces in parliament to stop a big rise in tuition fees.
Asked if he would be suprised if Brown stood down today, Hain said: "I know it would be best if we could get a partnership government which expresses the progressive majority in parliament.
Three relatively senior Labour figures, Clive Lewis, Lisa Nandy and Jonathan Reynolds, last week jointly suggested that their party should stand aside to maximise the chances of a Lib-Dem victory, on the grounds that "in this parliament progressives will need every vote that they can get".
His campaign themes, which double up as "tests" for any party seeking his support in a hung parliament, are progressive tax reform, extra education spending for poor pupils, greenery and a more proportional voting system.The Lib Dems' resilient appeal is based on a number of things.
The new MP said: "We are very clear about the pledges we have put forward, that is we are going to do everything we can to back an end to austerity, get more powers for the Scottish Parliament and other progressive politics, that we think we could build alliances across the UK and bring some progressive change to the UK which we think it badly needs".
Once viewed by most donors as a progressive leader, he is using parliament to amend his own constitution of 1995 that limited presidents to two terms in office; his second expires in less than a year.
The opposition Democratic party has managed only some belated, timid criticism of these events; even the neo-fascist Gianfranco Fini, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, sounded more progressive when he proposed that migrants be allowed to vote in local elections; migrants' children born in Italy get citizenship; and the waiting period for adult citizenship be shortened.
