Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.