The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

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

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

All businessmen are scum.

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.