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

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.

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

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

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

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

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