I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry.

'Now I am in your country with a colleague, than whom I am older, have been in parliament longer, have held higher positions in our respective political partie…