Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.