“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.”
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
