I Have Got Instincts That, I Think,

The Conservative Party Is Not Honouring The Commitment To Lords Reform And, As A Result, Part Of Our Contract Has Now Been Broken. Clearly I Cannot Permit A Situation Where Conservative Rebels Can Pick And Choose The Parts Of The Contract They Like, While Liberal Democrat Mps Are Bound To The Entire Agreement.

I Work In Lockstep, Hand In Glove, With The Prime Minister On These Issues, And As We Are Supportive To The Eurozone So They Can Sort Their Problems Out, In Return They Introduce Safeguards To Ensure Precisely What I Said: That The Single Market Is Not Fragmented And That Important Industries Like The Financial Services Industry Are Treated Fairly. Not Exceptional Treatment, But Are Just Simply Treated Fairly, On A Level Playing Field Within Europe.

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.

One Of The Big Changes In Politics Has Been Because Families, Individuals, Have Felt Worried, Insecure... Worried About The Economy, Worried About Their Jobs, Worried About Their Kids' Futures... Actually The Disconnect Between The Public And Media Discourse And People's Everyday Concerns Has Become Bigger Not Smaller.

I Think That The Days When Newspaper Barons Could Basically Click Their Fingers And Governments Would Snap To Attention Have Gone.