The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

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.

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

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

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

The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within...

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

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