00:00Just finally, this announcement coincides with a debate this afternoon that the Tonys are bringing about, single-sex spaces.
00:06I mean, don't get me wrong, I think there's been periods over the last few years where I have maybe
00:11thought I've completely fallen out of love with politics
00:14and I never want to have anything to do with it again once I'm out of Parliament, but that's been
00:20fleeting.
00:21I think when I published my book last year and started doing lots and lots of big events around that,
00:28I felt the love of politics, the appetite for politics, small p-politics, reactivate in me.
00:37I'm leaving frontline politics, I'm leaving elected politics, but I don't think I'm the kind of person who'll ever be
00:43completely silent on the issues I care most about.
00:48And so no, and you know what, it hasn't, and I'm really grateful for this because I do recognise that
00:54it might have been different.
00:54It hasn't soured me as a person.
00:59On the contrary, you know, some of the things that have happened in the last couple of years, last three
01:03years,
01:04I would dearly love to be able to erase and have them never happen.
01:09But I also know that they've made me a stronger person.
01:14They've made me somebody who's got a much keener appreciation of what matters in life, who matters in life,
01:21and it maybe sounds bizarre to say, but I'm probably a happier person,
01:25having gone through the last few years, than I might have been otherwise.
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