Jeremy, Are We Going To Play Your

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 Despatch Box. I Find It Very Difficult Not To Tell The Truth. I Felt I Was Accountable For What I Said.

The Media Are Obsessed With Spin Doctors And With Portraying Them As A Bad Thing, Yet Seem Addicted To Our Medicine.

My Public Caricature - That Of A Self-confident Alpha Male - Is Only Partly Accurate.

My Closest Friend, Who Died Not Long Ago, Is Buried Near Marx's Grave In Highgate Cemetery, So I See The Gaggle Of Admirers Laying Roses At The Foot Of His Tombstone Regularly. I Have Never Been Tempted To Leave Flowers There Myself. Great Theories, Shame About The Practice. Marx Did Many Things. But Inventing Class Was Not One Of Them.

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.