The five candidates for the Labour leadership have written Fabian Essays on how important it is that the party has a distinctive ideology, as well as answering a selection of questions submitted by Fabian members and contributors online.

In the essays, Diane Abbott argues that, without ideology, the Labour front bench would be in danger of becoming "freelance management consultants", Ed Balls says that 2010 voters thought Labour no longer "championed a fair society", Andy Burnham admits that "we seemed dazzled by power, glamour and big business", David Miliband argues that despite Osborne's "masochism", Labour mustn't deny "economic reality", and, according to Ed Miliband, "old-fashioned New Labour is now an obstacle to winning next election".

 You can read the full collection of essays online here.