The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?