Yes it was (tough). Walking away and knowing I'll probably not get that position again. I always said it's the only place I ever wanted to coach.

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.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.