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

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

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

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

I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.

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.

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.