If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

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

I think I'm highly loveable.

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

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.