The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this