Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.