In politics, guts is all.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.