I Think I'm Highly Loveable.

Friends Have Suggested That I Am The Least Qualified Person To Talk About Happiness, Because I Am Often Down, And Sometimes Profoundly Depressed. But I Think That's Where My Qualification Comes From. Because To Know Happiness, It Helps To Know Unhappiness.

So Here Is One Of My Theories On Happiness: We Cannot Know If We Have Lived A Truly Happy Life Until The Very End. This View Of Life And Death Was Reinforced By My Close Witnessing Of The Buildup To The Death Of Philip Gould. Philip Was Without Doubt My Closest Friend In Politics. When He Died, I Felt Like I Had Lost A Limb.

Like Most Meaningful Activities, Campaigns Are Team Games.

One Day, We Will Look Back And Wonder How On Earth We Used To Believe That Depression Was A Lifestyle Choice, Only To Be Debated And Taken Seriously When An A List Film Star Took His Life, And The World Filled With People Saying How Shocked And Saddened They Were.

I Do Think It's Strange That I Get Associated With Iraq More Than The People Who Were Foreign Secretary Or Defence Secretary. It's Because Of My Closeness To Tony [blair], Which I Don't Regret At All. I Think That Was A Privilege.