I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.
Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
There is something in me that makes me see things through.
For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.