Simon Hoggart Quotes

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

[Referring to British Prime Minister Anthony Eden: He is not only a bore but he bores for England.

I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well.

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

I like Tony Blair.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!