In politics, guts is all.

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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

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

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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

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

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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

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

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