The announcement of worse than expected numbers and a recommended offer at around the closing share price could be seen as something of a triumph.

2006 should be a lot more challenging with the fuel bill expected to soar.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.

The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.