“I put £150, 000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.”
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Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.