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

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

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

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.

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.

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