New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power. — John McDonnell Coalition Copy Share Image
Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit. — John McDonnell Airport Copy Share Image
We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs. — John McDonnell Employment Copy Share Image
We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change. — John McDonnell Change Copy Share Image
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour. — John McDonnell Britain Copy Share Image
You can't change the world through the parliamentary system. — John McDonnell Change Copy Share Image
I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the… — John McDonnell Boy Copy Share Image
Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded. — John McDonnell Goals Copy Share Image
I am categorically opposed to any fees for education - and I have voted and campaigned against their introduction at every stage. — John McDonnell Am Copy Share Image
I think that I was the first MP to call for the nationalisation of Northern Rock, although that is hardly surprising because… — John McDonnell Calling Copy Share Image
If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those… — John McDonnell 1930s Copy Share Image
A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax. — John McDonnell Income tax Copy Share Image
The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading… — John McDonnell Big Copy Share Image
New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised - but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays. — John McDonnell Every Copy Share Image
If people need homes then put councils and building workers to work to build them, buy up the empty ones and stop… — John McDonnell Building Copy Share Image
If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of… — John McDonnell People Copy Share Image
When you're in the depths of a recession, that isn't the time when people want to challenge the system, they're too busy… — John McDonnell Busy Copy Share Image
Since John Smith's death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group… — John McDonnell Death Copy Share Image
The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were… — John McDonnell Corporations Copy Share Image
People realise that if Labour is to fulfil its founding goal of transforming our economic and political system into a more equal,… — John McDonnell British Copy Share Image
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade… — John McDonnell Civil liberties Copy Share Image
Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's… — John McDonnell Education Copy Share Image
Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport… — John McDonnell Environmentally friendly Copy Share Image
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment… — John McDonnell Fault Copy Share Image
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt. — John McDonnell Debt Copy Share Image
If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag. — John McDonnell Alive Copy Share Image
I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it… — John McDonnell Accountability Copy Share Image
In 1985, as a community activist and GLC councillor, I organised the first ever public meeting to explain the threat of a… — John McDonnell Airport Copy Share Image
We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to… — John McDonnell Back Copy Share Image
We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of… — John McDonnell Choice Copy Share Image
It was inevitable and understandable that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be a massive culture shock for some sections of the… — John McDonnell Culture Copy Share Image
Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes… — John McDonnell Authority Copy Share Image
To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised. — John McDonnell Being Copy Share Image
When I was a GLC councillor, we won and held London as Labour was imploding nationally - running popular campaigns against the… — John McDonnell Fighting Copy Share Image
I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality,… — John McDonnell Democracy Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members… — John McDonnell Better Copy Share Image
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a… — John McDonnell Career path Copy Share Image
There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long… — John McDonnell Civil liberties Copy Share Image
The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not… — John McDonnell Computers Copy Share Image
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland. — John McDonnell Face Copy Share Image
