We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients – with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals. John McDonnell Read Quote
The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy. John McDonnell Read Quote
My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I’ll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I’m going to try. John McDonnell Read Quote
I sneaked into an Everton match once. I’m a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren’t playing, there wasn’t even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everton match. God help me. It wasn’t me. John McDonnell Read Quote
Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people. John McDonnell Read Quote
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path. John McDonnell Read Quote
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers. John McDonnell Read Quote
Heathrow is in my constituency and I have been at both the Terminal 4 and Terminal 5 planning inquiries. At these inquiries my community has been assured by the inquiry inspectors, BAA and government ministers that each development would be the last piece of expansion of the airport because of its ever-increasing noise and air pollution. John McDonnell Read Quote
I’ve always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence. John McDonnell Read Quote
There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them. John McDonnell Read Quote
