I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

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

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

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

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.