00:00It's certainly a very big role, very big, and I'm very conscious of that.
00:06So there is a lot to take in, a lot to take on.
00:09I've been involved at national level in smaller ways.
00:12I've been Chair of the Department of Social Justice for the Bishops' Conference now for a good few years.
00:19National roles in relation to prisons.
00:22So I've got some experience of the national scene.
00:26I think it's deeply, deeply unhelpful for that reason that I've mentioned.
00:31That it kind of paints, put it this way, it paints with too broad a brush.
00:40And at the end of this is a human person.
00:43We must shine the light on the dignity of that person.
00:47I think that's something that the Gospel brings, that the Church brings into the world.
00:52It's shining that light on the dignity of every man, every woman.
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