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Intrinsically the National Health Service is a church. It is the nearest thing to the embodiment of the Good Samaritan that we have in any respect of our public policy.

— Barbara Castle

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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered.

Statement (1959)

This means a pension increase of 72p – a fair price for a bag of peanuts.

Speech to the Labour Party Conference (1999)

They lured us into the Market with the mirage of the market miracle.

[W]e shall fight any legislation based on these proposals tooth and nail, line by line, and, however long it takes, we shall destroy the Bill.

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