Hughes: This is our place
Simon Hughes, Lib Dem deputy leader, comments to politics.co.uk at the start of the Lib Dem conference:
“It’ll just remind people the deal that’s been done in the coalition is not the deal the Liberal Democrats would have done on their own.
“We believe the best way to deal with education, for example, is to make sure you support the existing schools, you fund the existing schools and you keep them linked to locally elected authorities. Let’s see the outcome.
“This is a conference where Liberal Democrats express what we want to be the solution, and that doesn’t mean we have to sign on the dotted line for everything the coalition government agrees.
“This is our place, our policy… sometimes we’ll say actually we would have done it differently.”
