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

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

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.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

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 don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'