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

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

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed.

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

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

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