Laura Kuenssberg

But these are also, they're human beings, you know, politicians, and I admire people who go into politics, because they give up an awful lot.

Yes, they, if you get to the top, you get huge power.

You have huge privilege.

You have huge influence and all those things that you might have craved if you are, you know, cravenly ambitious from a young age and wanted to be the prime minister or the king of the world as Boris Johnson wanted to be when he was a kid.

But they also sacrifice an awful lot.

They sacrifice privacy.

They sacrifice anything like a good night's sleep.

They work demonic hours.

They're under huge pressure all the time.

They're under intense scrutiny.

They're pilloried by their colleagues all the time.

They get a hard time from journalists.

They fall out with their friends, their friends turn on them.

And it is a tough old game.

And that's why often you find in the end, it ends up being the conversations with their partners that are the ones that need to be had at the end.

But it's lonely at the top.

I mean, I've seen them come and go and come and go and the removal vans arrive.

It is lonely and tough.

And I don't feel, you know, I'm not saying newscasters should feel sorry for politicians, but they're human beings.

You know, and imagine any of us, if you had a job that you had worked so hard for, for years and years and years, and you get there, finally, and then it's really, really difficult.