In politics a week is a very long time.

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

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.