The Politician Who Never Made A Mistake

If You Look Back Historically, Admittedly A Long Time Ago, There Were Three Afghan Wars In Which Britain Didn't Even Come A Good Second. In More Recent Years The Russians Were There With 120,000 Men For Ten Years.

In Housing In The Fifties In Britain And The Sixties, We Pulled Down The Terraces - Destroyed Whole Communities And Replaced Them With Tower Blocks And We Built Walkways That Became Rat-runs For Muggers. That Was The Fashionable Opinion. But It Was Wrong.

I Am Walking Over Hot Coals Suspended Over A Deep Pit At The Bottom Of Which Are A Large Number Of Vipers Baring Their Fangs.

You're Lucky To Head A Coalition Government. I Am A Coalition Government On My Own.

Of Course There Are Regrets. I Shall Regret Always That I Found My Own Authentic Voice In Politics. I Was Too Conservative, Too Conventional. Too Safe, Too Often. Too Defensive. Too Reactive. Later, Too Often On The Back Foot.