Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
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“I don’t love you.”
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When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
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I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
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