I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.