128 Quotes by John McDonnell

The Tories have made a complete mess of Brexit negotiations.

We believe that leaders should be following the masses. We only ran in leadership campaigns to get our ideas across, to use it as a platform.

When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.

I've always said the left needs to be ready for government.

I'm a Marxist.

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.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.