When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere