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.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.