When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

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