Ms Cathy Herbert:

I think he felt, and I think it was a difficulty that people around the Cabinet table were in a difficult political position because they had been part of decisions that he had to unravel and that he had to ... you know, that certainly caused the crisis. And I think he had, yes ... he felt he had to do a lot of the communications. He was a very good communicator and a lot of that role fell to him but he did it and he did it well.