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

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

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

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

America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.