I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of c….

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good..

The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the rig….

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends..

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type..

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain..

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and ec….

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyo….

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive.