The following is an abstract of Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's 50-minute keynote speech at the Umno Youth general assembly today.

Umno, as BN's biggest party, must embrace a vision that demonstrates our leadership credentials – a leadership that is comprehensive, inclusive and national. This calls for courage because it requires us to shift away from our comfort zones of a communal party perspective to a more holistic political consciousness, which incorporates all.

I mention courage too, because we are now at a crossroads of our cause, where we can choose to remain on the same path with the same style and methods. We can continue with the chest-thumping rhetoric, warning other races never to challenge this or that.

This option is easy, and may promise a measure of popularity within the party. But, we must ask ourselves, is this what Malaysians – Malays included – really want from Umno, especially when the president (Najib Abdul Razak) is bringing the message of unity through the concept of 1Malaysia?