Mr. Rory Montgomery:

I will start. As I said earlier, when we stand back and look at the leadership across the board, and the quality of Bertie Ahern's and Tony Blair's leadership, we were blessed to have a group of people that included John Hume, Seamus Mallon, David Trimble, John Alderdice, the Women's Coalition, David Ervine, and Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, who were extraordinarily able people. I must say that I think the biggest contrast now is the make-up of the current British Government. Even if I am benefitting from parliamentary privilege, I feel that now is not the moment to discuss Boris Johnson. I will simply paraphrase US Senator Lloyd Bentsen. I knew Tony Blair, and he is no Tony Blair, which is true. I think the approach of the British Government to Brexit has been rightly criticised. That is underlined by the fact that apparently, only 4% of the people of Northern Ireland - regardless of what community they come from - trust the British Government. I must say that I feel that the calibre of senior officials in the British Civil Service is not what it was. I say that quite frankly, having met many of them over the years. I think that in a way they have been badly buffeted by the way in which Government and the Civil Service have related in Britain over the past ten to 15 years, and particularly over the past few years. The depth of knowledge and commitment that was there in the 1980s with people like Robert Armstrong, David Goodall, Quentin Thomas and John Chilcot, and so on is no longer there. That is huge. On the question of whether we can get back there-----