When I Became Leader, I Made Very

If There's One Thing I'm Not Going To Apologise For As The Leader Of The Liberal Democrats In Government After 60 Or 70 Years Of Being Out Of Government, It's That You Just Cannot Avoid But Deal With The World The Way It Is.

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.

You Have A Political And Media Elite Who Have An Idiom By Which They Describe Politics. It's Highly, Highly Polarised. It's Right, Left, Red, Blue, Up, Down, Victorious, Crushed.

Liberalism Is A Really Old British Tradition And It Has A Completely Different Attitude Towards The Individual And The Relationship Between The Individual And The State Than The Collectivist Response Of Labour, And Particularly Old Labour, Does.

We Need To Reach Out To Small 'l' Liberal Voters Who Have A Modern Outlook On Life, Who Want A Party That Is Hard-headed On The Economy - More Credible On The Economy Than Labour - But More Socially Progressive And Fairer Than The Conservatives.