If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

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

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.