Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

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

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

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.

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

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.