I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.