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‘ Labour has nothing to gain by dwelling in the past.

Nor do I think we can impress the nation by adopting a futile left-wingism.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’