“The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.”

“I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bul”