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I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
I am too ashamed to answer.
To my daughters and my partner, Tracey, for what I put them through with my transition.
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