and i've asked martin gilbert to ask you question. >> good afternoon. >> you visited basra in november 2006, as a result of your experiences then, and the events in the 7 months that followed, what other aspects of british policy in iraq that you felt needed to be changed when you became prime minister. >> my focus was on the area for which we had responsibility. and, i looked carefully, initially, of course with tony blair because he made a statement to the house of commons in 2007, of what we hoped to do to reduce the number of troops and improve how the iraqi army were policed and were trained and my determination was we created the context in which iraqis, i.e. the people of basra had more control over their own affairs and had to build up the training of the iraqi forces and the training of the iraqi police, and we did that. and, eventually, i think we have trained 20,000 iraqi forces, then we have to make sure that local government elections took place, so that there was some stability which was not the man of violence holding the ring, it was people who were directly elected who