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

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

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

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

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

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

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