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.

Jo Swinson

When I was a little girl, about eight, I remember going into the Body Shop - that was my first introduction to campaigning. There would always be a petition at the till about fair-trade or stop testing on animals, and the message was: get involved and make change.

Jo Swinson

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

Jo Swinson

I have no limits to my ambition for the Liberal Democrats.

Jo Swinson

We champion freedom - but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe.

Jo Swinson

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.

Jo Swinson

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.

Jo Swinson

For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken - the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll reap the rewards. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are just as capable of fixing the social contract as they are to weaken it further.

Jo Swinson

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

Jo Swinson

The piece of legislation that I'm so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave.

Jo Swinson

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

Jo Swinson

My childhood was a mix of ballet classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an author. Later on, inspired by Young Enterprise and the Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, I decided I wanted to go into business.

Jo Swinson

We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the 'girl jobs'.

Jo Swinson

By stopping Brexit, investing in skills and providing tailored support to key industries, we can get the UK economy back on track and help the communities that have been hit hardest by the threat of Brexit.

Jo Swinson

If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes having MPs who are parents of small children - both mums and dads.

Jo Swinson

There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.

Jo Swinson

Every January we see these fad diets promoted. These aren't promoting healthiness, these aren't promoting a way of embracing exercise and eating fruit and veg and doing things which will actually help people.

Jo Swinson

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

Jo Swinson

A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.

Jo Swinson

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

Jo Swinson

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

Jo Swinson