"I will go so far as to say that if the implications of the White Paper are sound, there is no longer any justification for this party existing at all. We think that we represent a fundamental body of doctrine which is conducive to the welfare of the State, and which subsequently the State will have to adopt if it is to be saved. Therefore, I do not see for the life of me—and I am putting a serious proposition to the House—how a Coalition Government can pretend to be able to examine a situation of this sort and put an intelligible series of propositions to the House."

“Just consider, all the little nations running for shelter here and there, one running to Russia and another to the United States. In that situation before anything else would happen, the world will have been polarised between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is against that negative polarisation we have been fighting for years. We want to have the opportunity to interpose between these two giants a moderating, modifying and mitigating diplomacy.”

“The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.”

“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”

“Speeches on the NHS at Socialist Health Association”

“If the Labour Party is not going to be a Socialist Party, I don't want to lead it.”

“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”