If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

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 believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.