I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

In politics, guts is all.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.