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I Totally Rule Out Any Arrangements With The Snp — In The Same Way I Rule Out Any Arrangements With Ukip - Because There Is No Meeting Point For Me With One Party That Basically Wants To Pull Our Country To Bits And Another Party That Wants Us To Pull Out Of The Eu. I Would Never Recommend To The Liberal Democrats That We Help Establish A Government Which Is Basically On A Life Support System, Where Alex Salmond Could Pull The Plug Any Time He Wants.

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.

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.

We Need To Teach Our Kids, Because There Is Such A Celebrity Culture At The Moment, That However Rich You Are, However Famous You Are, However Glamorous You Are, Everyone Has To Live By The Same Rules.

[all Governments] Get Into A Rut Where Every Potentially Good Story Turns Into A Bad One.