Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

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.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

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

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.