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.

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 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

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

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

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