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.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

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.

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.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

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.

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