Clegg: Lib Dems must move on

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg responds to a devastating night of elections in England, Scotland and Wales:

“My heart goes out to all those many Liberal Democrat councillors, MSPs, AMs who have shown such dedication and hard work to their local communities and have now found theyt have lost or they haven’t made the gains they had hoped.

“In politics as in life sometimes you get these big ups and downs and we have taken a real knock last night. We’ll need to learn the lessons we’ve heard on the doorstep. But we need to get up, dust ourselves down and move on.

“What we need to do is redouble our efforts to not only explain but show that precisely the reason the Liberal Democrats are in government – so that we don’t go back as a country but that we go forwards,” Mr Clegg added.