May I Share With You My Earliest

There Is Something In Me That Makes Me See Things Through.

Sometimes Jonathan [powell] And Myself Would Go To Tony [blair] And Ask Him If He Was Absolutely Sure About This Or That. That Was Our Job. But Ultimately It Was His Decision.

I Have A Nightmare About Tony [blair] And Gordon [brown] Killing Each Other. Not Every Month, But Now And Then. I Also Have A Recurring Dream About Losing.

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. We Should Have Learnt From The Great Football Teams. The Players May Not Like Each Other. They Have Egos, They Have Their Own Ambitions, They Have Different Personalities, But They Are Still Bloody Good Teams.

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.