The House of Commons lives in a state of perpetual potential choice: at any moment it can choose a ruler and dismiss a ruler. And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath. Walter Bagehot
Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children – clean, indoors, and no heavy lifting. Diane Abbott
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert Asquith