People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

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

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

Failure? The possibilities do not exist.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.