The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

All businessmen are scum.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.