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

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

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

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould.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

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

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

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