He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

In politics, guts is all.

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.

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

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