New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

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.

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.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

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

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

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