Grown-up Politicians Talk To Each Other Across

I Totally Rule Out Any Arrangements With The Snp — In The Same Way I Rule Out Any Arrangements With Ukip - Because There Is No Meeting Point For Me With One Party That Basically Wants To Pull Our Country To Bits And Another Party That Wants Us To Pull Out Of The Eu. I Would Never Recommend To The Liberal Democrats That We Help Establish A Government Which Is Basically On A Life Support System, Where Alex Salmond Could Pull The Plug Any Time He Wants.

My Dad's Side Of The Family Had Lots Of Artists And Musicians. There's An Emotional, Quite Sentimental Quality To Slavic Culture. It's Very Open, It Loves Art, It Loves Music, It Loves Literature. It's Very Warm, It's Very Up, It's Very Down. I Would Celebrate That.

The Labour Party Has Become Consumed By Collective Bile Towards... The Liberal Democrats. That Portrays A Rather Nasty Arrogance.

The Caricature Of What George Osborne Is Doing On The Fiscal Side Is Absurd. If You Read Some Of The Commentary, Particularly From The Left, You Would Think He Was Turning The Clock Back To The 1930s.

Although I Am A Young Leader, I Actually Came To It Strangely Quite Late. I Have A Different Perspective, Partly Because Of My Family, Partly Because Of What I Did For Ten Years: Negotiating Trade Deals, Working Out In Central Asia Doing Assistance Projects.