time and again, the area you're from in the south of county down, the mourne mountains, comes out ase areas with the highest quality of life in the uk. i ask you this in the nicest possible way. you're approaching a time when you could be thinking of retirement. you've got your knighthood. you've gotjobs as trade envoy to egypt and cameroon. were you not tempted to retire rather than become a party leader at a time of such crisis for your party and your government and the country? well, there are two types of people in politics — those who, when there is a crisis, run towards danger to try and sort things out and those who don't. and when i was 18 years old, nick, and when northern ireland was at the height of the violence and the turmoil of what we call the troubles, i put on the uniform of the ulster defence regiment and stood on the front line with my comrades to try and protect the community against terrorism. so i don't run from trouble. i try to do what i can to sort trouble out, to stop it from happening, to safeguard people. and so that's why i've stepped forward to become le

how and why did a boy from that beautiful corner of northern ireland, from the mourne mountains, suddenly decided a very young age and it was a young age, you went into politics, that this was what you needed to do? well, as i said, at the age of 18, i took a decision to do something to try and move northern ireland on, to protect a community that i was living in at the time. but also i became involved in politics as well at the age of 18. so when i came of age, if you like, i took two decisions. one, to stand with my father and my brothers and others to try and protect our community against terrorism. and secondly, i got involved in politics because i recognized that in the end there wasn't a security solution, per say, to the problems of northern ireland, that it was through politics that we would change things for the better. and i still believe that... you once said you were motivated by a deep sense of adjusted perpetrated against my people and specific that my family —— deep sense ofjustice. how old were you when you heard the news that your cousin had been murdered? that was on aug

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