You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

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

My mother was the center of the family.

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.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

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.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere