My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.