Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.