Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

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.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

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.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

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