Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...the Labour Party Conference.

[Peter]

Well, either they were British, or they weren't. I'm pretty sure that these matters are governed by some legal definition, rather than the opinion of the Home Secretary or a civil servant.

I think it was an 'administrative error'.......

[Sir C]

I think it was an 'administrative error'.......

Mistakes happen, p. It's a good job we have an independent judiciary to have the final say in these matters.

If someone told me I wasn't British, I'd show them my passport and suggest they sling their hook. Why did these Windrushers not do similar?

[Burney]

The closest they came to being 'proven' was in being proven to be *******s. He sued the paper and won.

It was not proven to be *******s. There wasn't enough hard evidence to win a libel case. Those are two very, very different things.

Bob Maxwell won loads of libel cases. Presumably you think he was whiter than white, too?

The allegation was based on the testimony of a KGB colonel who had seen the KGB files on Foot and whose intelligence was impeccable in every single other regard. Why would he lie about Foot all of a sudden?

[Burney]

Ben Macintyre has reported it.

Ben Macintyre is never wrong.

Foot, like Benn, was a Soviet stooge and tried to sell the British people into slavery.

Such are socialists.

Have you read the Gordievsky book? It's bloody good. Say what you like about Oleg, but he had some big, brass balls on him.

Not a fùcking chance I'd have gone back to Moscow if I was suddenly recalled as he was.

[Sir C]

Smearing a man like Michael Foot is pretty despicable.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world.

Michael Foot appeared at a ceremony to honour our Glorious Dead wearing a donkey jacket. That's what he thought of our Glorious Dead.

[Burney]

Mistakes happen, p. It's a good job we have an independent judiciary to have the final say in these matters.

If someone told me I wasn't British, I'd show them my passport and suggest they sling their hook. Why did these Windrushers not do similar?

Not a drop of British blood in you, is there?

[Sir C]

Have you read the Gordievsky book? It's bloody good. Say what you like about Oleg, but he had some big, brass balls on him.

Not a fùcking chance I'd have gone back to Moscow if I was suddenly recalled as he was.

No, I like to listen to my Macintyres. It's in the queue.

[Burney]

I think it was an 'administrative error'.......

Exactly. All a misunderstanding, I'm sure.

If any of them had been any good at cricket you can be sure we'd have kept them.

[Burney]

No, I like to listen to my Macintyres. It's in the queue.

Oh, I'm listening to it now. I tend to use 'read' and 'listen to' interchangeably these days.

[Sir C]

Not a drop of British blood in you, is there?

None whatsoever. Except all of it. 100% British blood. Cut me and I bleed red, white and blue. Mainly red.