"A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income" - 1952

"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society" - 1969

"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often" - 1970

"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected" - 1970

Lord Jenkins presents his budget in 1970

"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect" - 1972

"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life" - 1973

"There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive" - 1973

"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good" - 1975

"Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain" - 1979

"The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?" - 1980

"The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends" - 1981

"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" - 1982