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

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.

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.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

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

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.