Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.