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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.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation - but it wasn't as if I was planning or ever expected to become president, so I wasn't thinking back then of what I would do if I was in this position, I was just trying to understand the problems and challenges.

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

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

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.