Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.