If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.