I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.