The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.