so, no, look, i, iwas one of the leaders of the lib dem caucus within the lse.up my party membership of the lib dems i think when i was 24. so i stopped being a party member after 2a and i genuinely since then have not always voted for the same party at elections. i am a floating voter. what intriguing is you have this very public role. you describe yourself as a young man going on the tv, and yet you were briefly a recluse in your youth. this was a difficult, difficult few years you had after the death of your mother, unexpectedly when you were young. yeah. i found it very difficult to leave the house because i hadn't been there when my mother was killed. so i found it very... and yes, until 18, i really didn't go out. i mean, ijust didn't go out. i mean, i would go to my grandmother's, but i would stay in the house or i'd do things with family and i wouldn't go anywhere. i never went to the pub, never went to a party, never did any of that. and it was a very, very tough time. i mean, she was gone. i won't go into the details because i suspect it's something yo