When I Became Leader, I Made Very

I Don't Even Pretend We Can Occupy The Lib Dem Holier-than-thou, Hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type Stance. No, We Are Getting Our Hands Dirty, And Inevitably And Totally Understandably We Are Being Accused Of Being Just Like Any Other Politicians.

The Liberal Democrat Party And The Conservative Party Come At Things Very Differently When It Comes To Europe. When It Comes To Political Reform, We Have A Much Greater Tradition In The Liberal Democrats Of Social Justice And Fairness Than The Conservatives Do.

You See People Literally In A Different Galaxy Who Are Paying Extraordinarily Low Rates Of Tax.

I Didn't Become Leader To Transform The Liberal Democrats Into An Enlarged Form Of The Electoral Reform Society. It's Not The Be All And End All For Us. There Are Other Very, Very Key Ambitions In Politics, Not Least Social Mobility And Life Chances, That I Care About As Passionately If Not More.

Any Government, Of Whatever Composition, Needs To Mobilise Opinion Way Beyond Its Own Ranks In Order To Do The Difficult Things That It Does.