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

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

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

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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….

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

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.