BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... September 12, 2021 15:40:00
As me, i'm not encouraging you to announce your retirement here and now. let me ask you, though, about the troubles, as you raised them. 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, nick, 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 wh...