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Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

I know I'm unpopular.

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.