We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.