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.

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.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

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.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.