A Journey (120 page)

iii) Always happy in the sun. We lived in Australia till I was five

iv) At my school, Fettes, in spring 1971 with friends Amanda Mackenzie Stuart and Chris Catto

v) In 1972, I left the North and came to London for a year. Alan Collenette and I promoted rock bands

vi) Cherie and me on our wedding day, at the Chapel of St John’s College, Oxford, 29 March 1980

vii) The Labour Party candidate in the Beaconsfield by-election, May 1982

viii) Cherie’s father first secured me an invitation to visit Westminster. On the terrace of the Houses of Parliament with Cherie, 1984

ix) Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party, came to support my campaign in Beaconsfield

x) The people of Trimdon, where we had our constituency home, supported me loyally during my twenty-five years as the Member for Sedgefield. I won the constituency in June 1983

xi) One of many happy moments with Cherie, Euan, Nicky and baby Kathryn at our house in Islington, 1988

xii) With Shadow Cabinet colleagues, a few months before the crushing general election defeat of 1992. From left, Gordon Brown, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Margaret Beckett and me

xiii) Derry Irvine, my pupil master in chambers, taught me a great deal in the early years. I was later to appoint him Lord Chancellor

xiv) Relaxing with friends Marc Palley and Peter Thomson, whom I met at Oxford. Peter was probably the most influential person in my life

xv) My relationship with my oldest political friend, Geoff Gallop, has been sustained from student days