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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.