The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.