The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.