Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

I had a happy childhood.

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.