"John was essentially a fudge leader. Tony Blair was the linear descendant of Neil Kinnock as a modernising Labour lea…"

"He is ready to embrace whatever changes are necessary, whether it be in policy or the party's internal structures. Bu…"

"[I]f John Smith had lived I think it would have been a very great advantage for the party. I think he had a better un…"

"[Smith's death was] one of the greatest tragedies to beset the Labour Party...the country was robbed of a great Prime…"

"He is hesitant about what they will do on the unions. I say, "You owe Mrs Thatcher a great deal. She has made it poss…"

"John was a product of the Labour Party of Gaitskell, Wilson and Callaghan, and he had a deep commitment to preserving…"

"John unified and therefore massively strengthened the Party by being completely unsectarian. Because he knew himself …"

"John gave the Party a feeling of what we were about. The best and only way of achieving Labour's values was through s…"

"If it is the case that one Department of this Government deliberately organised a leak to frustrate a Minister in the…"

"In the course of a few weeks the one policy with which the Prime Minister was uniquely and personally associated, the…"