If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea