Dr. Rowan Williams has admitted he has regrets about some of the last ten years as Archbishop of Canterbury.

“I do regrets all right,” Dr Williams told an audience at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster in one of his last big lectures before he retires at the end of the year to become Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

In a question and answer session at the end of a densely theological lecture on the nature of the individual, organised by the religion think tank Theos, Dr Williams admitted some of his statements, which have touched controversially on issues from the Iraq war to government economic policies, were risky.

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