The Independent - London, September 19th, 1994
Congratulations on your election as president of the Liberal Democrats. I look forward to passing on the baton at this week's party conference in Brighton. Welcome to the role once described to me, by the then Scottish Nationalist MP, Jim Sillars, as being but a heartbeat away from political impotence.
It is, of course, a good deal more than that. This week it's not back-to-basics, but back to Brighton. And back to business. You will have experienced the torture which has ruined my last four summer holidays. It's called your conference speech. You have to say something different from the part...
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