Alastair Campbell

He said, do you ever record what you drink?

And I said, no, why would I do that?

He said, some people do.

He said, I noticed when your belongings were brought back by the police, you keep a diary.

And I said, I do.

He said, if we went through your diary in recent days, do you think you'd be able to remember how much you had to drink?

And I'm now getting irritated.

And I said, okay, yeah.

So he definitely deliberately chose one of the pages that was most manic with my tiny, ridiculous scribbling and what have you.

So he said, take me through that day.

And my first words on the day were, woke up, threw up, waited for Fiona to go out, threw up again, went through.

And then as I got through to about 11.20am,

went to the Lord High Admiral pub.

Didn't record how much I drink, chatted to so-and-so, working on such and such, okay?

And I went through it, and then I got to lunch with David Mellor, the former cabinet minister.

And so, Ernest Bennie was saying, would you have anything to drink at lunchtime?

I said, yeah, a bit of wine.

Any idea how much?

Well, the emotional reaction would have been the emotional reaction that subsequently I realized had been the reaction I was

I was using to anybody who suggested to me that I was drinking too much, like Fiona or my friends or colleagues.