occasion i wavered in that was when i was flying back from birmingham, but i cannot be certain, with chris patten where the opinion polls had this 7%-8% behind. that is the only time i wave it. only very briefly then, because the next day it was a quite different feel. i may have been at delusional, but i thought all the way through that we were going to win that election. i was as clear cut about that as i was about knowing we were going to have difficulty in 1997. so i did generally believe we would win. as it happens, we got pretty much the biggest tragedy -- plurality of votes that any party have had for a very long time. we actually got more votes than any political party in history in 1992, but the distribution of the vote, and amal distribution of the constituency boundaries meant we only had a majority of 21, despite a huge lead in boats, in the majority were not everyone was steady on parade. i did think we would win, always. >> what is your impact of "the sun's " assessment? >> it was over the top. how much did that affect the election? the labor party thought it made a huge difference.