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

My mother was the center of the family.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

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.