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

The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

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

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

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