Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.