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 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.

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould.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

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

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