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….

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

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

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games..

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

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.….

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job..

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

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..

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness..

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan..

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

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….

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..

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….

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….