No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
From Neil Kinnock
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
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