In An Ideal World, It Would Not

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 Thing? Maybe. But From Around About The Turn Of The Century, I Felt Strongly That We Had To Do Something About Media Ownership And Self-regulation. Tony [blair] Disagreed.

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.

Tony [blair] Slowly Sucked Me Back In For The 2005 Campaign, And From Six Months Out, I Was Basically Working Full Time Trying To Keep The Tony[blair] - Gordon[brown] Thing Together For The Campaign. It Was Awful.

The Day Of The Daredevil Reporter Who Refuses To See Obstacles To Getting The Truth, And Seeing It With His Or Her Own Eyes, Seems To Have Died.

If You Look At The Other People Around At The Time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - They've All Gone. And They're Not Old. What's Happened Is That Someone Who Is Quite Old - Jeremy Corbyn - Is Now Leader. We Have To Take Some Responsibility For That.