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

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

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

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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