When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
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Brighton, 1984. I was in another hotel just a few yards away.
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Every time I let my wife drive.
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I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.
As health minister, I brought in breast and cervical cancer screening. And in 1994 I called the first debate on gay rights for a quarter-century and we got the age of consent down to 18. There are pubs in Brighton where I still can’t pay for a drink.
Not becoming chancellor.
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