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Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
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Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
Simon Mayo
English radio presenter and author
Feeling as though I had to leave Radio 2 to get my life back on track. I had every intention of being David Jacobs or Brian Matthew and going on until I was 127, but it didn’t turn out like that.
Monty Don
English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
At the time, losing our business, home and all our possessions in 1991 after the failure of our jewellery company. But if that had not happened then other good things would not have happened, either.
Not being a professional footballer.
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Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
As a mayor who made London better for all Londoners, and as a good husband and dad.
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