Anthony Crosland

“The party's over.”

“If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales and Northern Ireland.”

“Nationalisation... does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy.”

“I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.”

“A high level of public expenditure is a means of ensuring a fair distribution of the national income, and an essential condition of a more equal society.”

“The socialist seeks a distribution of rewards, status, and privileges egalitarian enough to minimise social resentment, to secure justice between individuals, and to equalise opportunities.”

“We want a society in which there are fewer back-scratching, self-satisfied and pompous pundits, a greater equality of rewards and of opportunity, and a wider diffusion of power.”

“My objective is to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families.”