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

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.

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

Being an MP is quite a strange job, because you do it in two different places. Half the time I'm in Westminster and the other half I'm in my constituency and the job is different in both of them.

In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

The government needs to work to improve how markets perform.