We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.