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

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

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

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

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive