An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.
There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.
I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting. " So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"
Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.
