All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.

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

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.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

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

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.