Quotes

When posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants.

[on David Dimbleby] One of the chattering classes that believes in proportional representation.

Let's get back to basics and let's represent our class. Let's talk about building houses, let's talk about getting down the dole queues, let's talk about taking on the bosses.

[on David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Paddy Ashdown] I've been fed up this last decade of listening to Doctor Death and Shirley Poppins and Woy of the Wadicals and now this Paddy Backdown.

Why do we need the Liberals?

What we need is a bit of class politics.

[on David Cameron] No wonder they call him Dodgy Dave.

[on David Cameron] This man has done more to divide this nation than anyone else.

[on David Cameron] I still refer to him as Dodgy Dave.

[on John Gummer] The wart on Mrs Thatcher's nose.