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

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

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.

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.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.