Come 1993, I was talked into standing for Labour, not because I didn't like Mike and I didn't agree with where the policy was going; it was because, as an army officer, I just couldn't see myself standing for Parliament, one, and, two, standing for a left-wing party. But we did. Part of the reason I took it up was because my mother-in-law forced me—no, I wouldn't say that! But it was because of Mike. 