The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

Roy Jenkins

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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

— Roy Jenkins

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I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

— Roy Jenkins

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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

— Roy Jenkins

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We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

— Roy Jenkins

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It's difficult, because math and science are areas where we're lacking around the country.

— James Jenkins

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