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

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.

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

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

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

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