I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.