article_snippet.sent: As a boy a boy enjoyed more 'freedom' than children today. '
article_snippet.sent: Kids were allowed out you know with sandwiches and a bottle of water and a bike and off you went and did things for the day.'
article_snippet.sent: This schoolboy trait has now become part of a boy political persona. '
article_snippet.sent: Well, being in the European Parliament was an extension of being in school and questioning authority, yes.
article_snippet.sent: Well you see if I got into the Conservative Party, one of the big parties and became an MP and was on a career path, perhaps you could have anticipated longer term what some of the costs might have been, because this was you know a little rabble army that suddenly became quite a big political party, so it's, some of it has come as a bit of a surprise