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 walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

Disunity costs votes.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.