I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I put &pound150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.