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I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

I have never been interested in specific roles.