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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.