I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.