The occasion was the junior doctors' strike of 2015-16, and, as Health Secretary, I was in the firing line of what turned out to be the most draining political battle I have ever fought.
The Conservative leader tore into the Labour leadership's total dysfunction and the party's ongoing unpopularity today as she accused Sir Keir Starmer of being 'in office, but not in power.
The Health Secretary did not deny that he would like to lead Labour in the future as he said he had to 'back himself' following a vicious internal briefing war.
The health secretary said he is 'particularly sympathetic' to the arguments being made for the need to proactively offer tests to men at highest risk of the disease.