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

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.

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.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

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