National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.