Barbara Castle

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Their idea was that competition would bring out the best in the entrepreneur and that the customer would benefit from that competition.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

There was nobody putting a floor in their lives to give them some kind of basic economic security. That was contrary to the philosophy.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

In politics, guts is all.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.