Jo Swinson

“My mum used to send me cuttings from the local paper about people who'd got married as a kind of 'hint hint'. But then there was one cutting about my home seat's boundary changes, and how it might be good for the Liberal Democrats, and I knew this was an opportunity.”

“There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or not you bottle feed. We know the evidence is very strong in favour of breastfeeding and the benefits of that, but it shouldn't mean we make people feel bad if they can't do that for some reason.”

“I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.”

“Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.”

“The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become active political campaigners and party members to champion the case for liberal democracy.”

“Research shows that when children have no body confidence at school they're less likely to put their hand up in class and ask a question.”

“It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.”

“Our country deserves a party that isn't afraid to say immigration is a good thing, or to say that Donald Trump is racist, or to admit that we have an economic system that is fundamentally broken for too many people and is breaking our planet too.”

“I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.”

“One of the things I love most about Lib Dem members is that for all our policy disagreements, we agree on why we're Lib Dems in the first place.”

“Every day we let this Brexit mess go on means less money being invested in the UK, fewer jobs being created and less tax revenue to pay for our public services.”

“Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions.”

“Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.”

“I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.”

“One of the initiatives I have pursued in Parliament has been to make it easier for the public to see what their MPs do in the House of Commons by removing the ban on Parliamentary filming appearing on YouTube or similar web sites.”

“Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.”

“I'm not supporting Jeremy Corbyn. If we are to have an election I would fight as Lib Dem leader as the party of remain that hasn't equivocated on this like Jeremy Corbyn.”

“If there was a Liberal Democrat government, there clearly would be women in the Liberal Democrat Cabinet.”

“I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.”

“I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.”