actually, thejourney we've been on has been quite incredible. i'm sure we will touch upon that later but i would say, i still think i've got the hardest job in british politics but i think humza yousaf is catching up with me. yeah, well, we will talk about him and his problems injust a second. but you in a sense, as i said, were simply going into the family business. this was something you'd prepared your whole life for. your father was notjust an mp but a powerful and successful figure in scotland. do you feel as you grew up that this is what you were expected to do and almost certainly would do? it's interesting because i always recoiled at the thought of standing for politics. i think my father wanted me to go into politics, if i'm honest with you. when i was a teenager and i recall when he asked whether i would go into politics and i was studying and i said, no chance, i'm not going to stand for politics. he didn't speak to me for six months because he obviously wanted me to go and do that. but actually, growing up... really didn't talk to you for six months? he really didn't talk to me for six months. he denies it now of course,