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

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

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

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

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.

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