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

I had a happy childhood.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

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

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.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.