15:00: Clegg opens up by praising the tenacity of British soldiers’ in Afghanistan and damns the government’s record on defence.
15:17: “I want to be PM because I have spent half a lifetime imaging what a better society would look like and I want to spend the next half making it happen” – listing prejudice, civil liberties and inequality among his targets.
15:21: Clegg attacks the “old politics”, connecting the financial crisis with the expenses scandal. “Labour betrayed the hopes of a generation”.
15:25: Now the attacks on the Tories begin. Clegg claims that he chose the Lib Dems because it was what he believed in; Tories, by contrast, chose their party because it was the “fastest route to power”. Clegg adds that: “There is less to Cameron than meets the eye”
Clegg says he is as similar to David Cameron as he is to Brad Pitt.
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