The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect