The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine..

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest aga….

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people..

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure..

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick..

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it onc….

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experience….

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously ….

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games..

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo….

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of ….

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals..

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive..

I think I'm highly loveable..

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a const….

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.….

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was….

I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies….

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can..

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the D….

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are..