I'm A Lifelong Believer In

The Quicker We Get Rid Of The Lobby System The Better For All Of Us. I Don't Think In This Day And Age It Is Tenable To Have These Nods And Winks, And On-the-record And Off-the-record Briefings.

My Favourite Novel Is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, The Story About The Unproven Case Of This Apparent Englishman Who Was Hired To Assassinate De Gaulle….

To Run An Effective Political Party You Need A Degree Of Tribalism, It's The Glue That Holds Everyone Together.

I Will Go Out Of This World Feet First With My Lib Dem Membership Card In My Pocket.

I Can Hardly Think Of An Occasion When I've Got Into A Stand-up Fight With Any Political Opponent. I've Got My Views, People Know What They Are, They Can Agree Or They Can Choose To Disagree. I'm Not Going To Waste Time Just Rubbishing Everybody Else.