Labour party Quotes · Page 4

The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.

— Dennis Skinner

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

— Margaret Thatcher

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

— Betty Boothroyd

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

— James Cleverly

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

— George Osborne

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

— Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

— Johann Lamont

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at…

— Gyles Brandreth

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government,…

— Vince Cable

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their…

— David Blunkett

I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors…

— Luciana Berger

As uncomfortable as this may be for some, the truth is that an independent Scotland can only benefit from both a Labour…

— Humza Yousaf

“The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal…

— Tony Blair

The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick…

— Harold Wilson

From the Equal Pay Act to the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equality Act through to the minimum wage and Sure Start,…

— Rachel Reeves

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're…

— Colm Keaveney

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO…

— Richard Perle

I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable…

— David Cunliffe

I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware…

— Stuart Hall

Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a…

— Jeremy Corbyn

“This is a huge strategic problem for Labour. Mr Laws is a magnificent deployer of Tina; every particular cut he makes, every…

— David Aaronovitch

I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this…

— Ron Davies

“Unless the Labour leadership candidates decide to settle the issue through televised mud-wrestling (Adam Boulton, I think, for referee, and he may…

— David Aaronovitch

I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity.…

— Keir Starmer

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

— Liz Kendall

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

— Jo Grimond

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

— Tony Blair

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

— Roy Hattersley

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

— Johann Lamont

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the…

— John Richard Reid

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

— Michael Foot

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

— Ron Davies

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

— Roy Jenkins

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

— Anna Soubry

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

— Shirley Williams

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

— Grace Chatto

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

— Chuka Umunna

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party…

— Noreena Hertz

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the…

— Dora Russell

My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party…

— Owen Jones