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

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

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 am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.