I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.