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.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

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

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

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

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.