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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.

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 was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

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

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.