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I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I grew up in a household that was very left wing.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.