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

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

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 stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

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

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