Making Mistakes Is How You Learn.

The Quickest Way To Get To The Top In Society Probably Is To Be A Blair Babe Now. And Then All Of A Sudden You Find You're Invited To Parties. I Don't Want To Be Cynical, Because I'm Not. But I've Seen It Happen To So Many People Who Move From The Left To The Right So Damn Quickly.

Undoubtedly The War With Iraq Was A Tragedy. I Think It Was Also A Crime.

If Democracy Is Destroyed In Britain, It Will Be Not The Communists, Trotskyists Or Subversives But This House Which Threw It Away. The Rights That Are Entrusted To Us Are Not For Us To Give Away. Even If I Agree With Everything That Is Proposed, I Cannot Hand Away Powers Lent To Me For Five Years By The People Of Chesterfield. I Just Could Not Do It. It Would Be Theft Of Public Rights.

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.

In The End, The Tragedy Of Harold Wilson Was That You Couldn't Believe A Word He Said