I think I failed to persuade Tony Blair of the crucial importance of social work to delivering real change.
I certainly wasn't able to persuade government about the sheer wickedness of imprisoning children or maltreating them because their families had "failed" asylum tests.
However, I left parliament in 2005, encouraged enough to return to social work to make a real difference.
Five years on, despite voting Labour, I was glad to see them go, deploring the late, warm words about social work, devoid of real support for the profession.
Like a lot of politicians, I value democratic politics above most things but don't trust any government at all.
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