My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

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

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

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