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.

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.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

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

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.

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

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.