The Wit and Wisdom of... Roy Hattersley, Mk. II

The tragedy has been for the people out there who needed a Labour government. Certainly the years since 1979 have been a tragedy for my constituents: black, poor, unemployed, badly housed. The defeats, and therefore our performance, have been a tragedy for the lowest paid 10-20% of the population, and we must feel some guilt about having behaved in a way which prevented us from coming to their assistance.

Roy Hattersley, speaking in 1995 on BBC 2 documentary Labour in the Wilderness