I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.