Shuttling back and forth between Westminster and the peace talks in Belfast has had no ill effects on the health of the Northern Secretary, Dr Mo Mowlam.
She said yesterday she is winning her battle back to health after being diagnosed as having a brain tumour earlier this year.
Speaking on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost television programme, Dr Mowlam said the radiotherapy she began in mid-March was now complete and she had needed no further treatment in the last five to six months. Dr Mowlam described herself as "fully back to health" and confirmed that she had given up cigarettes on the insistence of her husband's children.
She told David Frost: "My husband's children nag constantly, as you know children can. I gave up just before Christmas and I did it for the first time for years."