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

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.

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.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

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