Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould.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

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

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

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

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

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