Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.