Neil Kinnock

"I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge."

"I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated,…"

"The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished."

"If anyone wants to know why we must conduct ourselves , just remember at all times, with all temptations, how you, each and every one of you sitting in this hall, each and every Labour worker watching…"

"In the years between our defeat in 1979 and our defeat in 1983 Labour was increasingly seen to be a party slipping towards impossiblism, succumbing to fads, riven by vicious divisions, speaking the la…"

"I manifest no paranoia when I say that there has been in the Labour Party an element which has treated realism as treachery, regarded appeals to party unity as an excuse for suppression of liberties a…"

"By emphatically pressing the view that it is only possible to support radical Labour policies by supporting Tony Benn, Tony's associates have turned the contest into a gamble with policies, disagreeme…"

"What has happened is that there are people who, for reasons best known to themselves, have voted for maintaining division in our country."