I Have Got Instincts That, I Think,

On The Bskyb Bid, Rupert Murdoch Is Now In Town In London Seeking To Sort Things Out. I Would Simply Say To Him, Look How People Feel About This. Look How The Country Has Reacted With Revulsion To The Revelations. So Do The Decent And Sensible Thing And Reconsider, Think Again, About Your Bid For Bskyb.

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.

One Of The Best Ways To Make Growth Personal Is To Give Employees A Share In Their Firm, A Real Incentive To Go The Extra Mile, More Of A 'john Lewis Economy' If You Like...we Know That Firms Where Employees Are Engaged And Own A Stake Do At Least As Well As Other Companies In The Good Times And Have Performed Even Better In Recent Bad Times. Expanding And Recruiting At A Much Faster Rate And Achieving Better Productivity...so, Why Do They Make Up Just 2% Of Our Business Landscape?

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.

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