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.

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.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.