You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a voluntary capacity walking away.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

I've never been through anything like that before, ... They pushed you so hard. Seven days a week for six or seven hours a day. I think the first episode didn't do justice to the intensity of what everyone went through.

For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.