Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.