The party rallied round Nick Clegg this weekend at the Liberal-Democrat national conference in Liverpool. His hour long speech without notes proved he had the charisma to take the party forwards. And, crucially, his call to mend broken politics rang true in a way which David Cameron’s call the other week rang false. Nick Clegg really is putting forward a radical new vision of politics. David Cameron is doing no more than looking for reasons why people should support him to climb onto the rocking punt of what there is right now. Cameron has absolutely no intention of mending broken politics. Clegg has a programme and a plan to accomplish it.

Speaking personally, I had my busiest two day conference yet, speaking at fringe meetings on multi-culturalism and reconciliation, and chairing candidates’ briefings by Vince Cable (yes, that Vince Cable), Chris Huhne and Ed Davey. All good stuff.

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