Set myself a goal and i went for it and in some ways it was asking the unreasonable in terms of the number of leaflets that we would deliver, the number of letters we would stuff, the number of doors we would knock on and i think there is a great thing about ambition and motivating people but too often we let too much fall on the shoulders of too few people when we could work smarter or where of too few people when we could work smarter oi where we of too few people when we could work smarter or where we could spend more time growing the team and the pool of people and at this moment in our party where we have had so many new membersjoining us, party where we have had so many new members joining us, i party where we have had so many new membersjoining us, i think we need to bea membersjoining us, i think we need to be a lot better, a lot more proactive about encouraging new people who have joined proactive about encouraging new people who havejoined our proactive about encouraging new people who have joined our party to be actively involved and making that easy and making it sustainable, making it that you can be involved and you can do things in the liberal democrats, but it does not need to be your entire life because there are some of us who are happy for it to be our entire lives, pretty much, but not everybody is like that so making it possible for people to contribute in the way and the volume and the amount that works for them and the amount that works for them and being happy with that rather than making them feel bad for not doing more, ithink than making them feel bad for not doing more, i think that is a really important point for us all to hold onto and elections are stressful so looking out for each other and recognising that at times when there isa recognising that at times when there is a short word or whatever, that we can de escalate that, we can recognise that there is a sign that somebody is perhaps themselves not getting enough sleep, not getting enough support and we can look after each other a bit better because if we wa nt each other a bit better because if we want to achieve the things that we want to achieve the things that we do for our country, and that is why we are driven to do this, we need to work together, we need to Stay Together as a team and we need to look after each other together. Im going to take one more question. The lady in the green top has been very patient and had her hand up for ages. Please give us your name in question. My name is lara pringle. Unfortunately our family needed to ta ke unfortunately our family needed to take our local authority to a special Educational Needs tribunal. Its about time that local authorities are spending our taxes are held to account by an ethical code of conduct where they are not allowed to use public taxpayer money to abuse the tribunal system to prevent families with children of special Educational Needs and severe issues from getting the help that they deserve. Absolutely. Lara, it sounds horrendous what you had to go through and im often struck by challenges that people in my own constituency who come to my surgery and as if it isnt difficult enough, as if its not enough challenges, for pa rents as if its not enough challenges, for parents who are dealing with children who have Significant Health needs or significant emotional needs. On top of the general challenges of being a parent, to then have to fight the system, to, it just grinds people then have to fight the system, to, itjust grinds people down. We need to make it easierfor people itjust grinds people down. We need to make it easier for people and we need to make it more individualised because every child, every person is different and will need a different set of support and too often it is not put in place and its too much ofa not put in place and its too much of a fight and i think it is wonderful when parents fight for that but the thing that is perhaps even that but the thing that is perhaps eve n m ost that but the thing that is perhaps even most worrying as we know that not all parents have the capacity, the time, the emotional energy, to help themselves to be able to take that fight on and so the outcome means we are failing children who should be Getting Better support. You are right to raise it. Weve got time for one more substantive question and its from diana gray. How are we going to challenge and win in the north of england . The first thing i would say is we are challenging and winning in the north of england and if we look at council gains in liverpool, manchester, hull and other places, and if we look at the types of fabulous candidates who i hope we will welcome to parliament, people like the first question or release a smart, people like tom morrison who was on the stage earlier or Cameron Hussain in leeds or laura gordon in sheffield, we have a strong team across the north of england. We have strong constituencies who are working hard on fighting so we will be winning in the north of england. And what are the north of england. And what are the elements that we need to be talking about . There is a significant need for investment, in infrastructure. Hs2 and things like the Trans Pennine railway improvements. Its 20 years since i lived in yorkshire and i remember getting on Northern Spirit trains, although there was nothing heavenly about it, to and from work. In the recent leadership election, returning to those services, they do not seem to have taken any step forward in the last 20 years so it is clearly a need for greater investment. I also think there is a mindset shift. I really noticed, with apologies to all of you lovely people from london and the south east, that there can be an attitude that thinks that is where the world sta rts that thinks that is where the world starts and ends and there is a whole world outside of london that can be dismissed and whether thats by the media or by the government. When i was a minister at the department for business, i was struck by the fact that i was the only person whose constituency was basically more than one hour by car from constituency was basically more than one hour by carfrom london constituency was basically more than one hour by car from london and they seem to find it difficult to know how to get me my ministerial box at the weekend. They said for everyone else, we just stick it in a car the weekend. They said for everyone else, wejust stick it in a car and it goes to them, so i think there is this mindset which needs to change as well. We need to take our liberal democrat message. People in the north of england are concerned about brexit, jobs, climate emergency, so we need to have specific policies about investment. We need to recognise the full diversity of our united kingdom. Just as we champion devolution within scotland and wales and northern ireland, we need to make sure that there is genuine power within those cities in the north of england as well. Thank you. Im going to take some quick questions about winning in the north. Does anyone want to askjo anything . The gentleman in the white shirt at the back. The lady waving. If you wouldnt mind standing up. Lets have our first question. My name is mike eccles, i come from brecon and radnor. Im a new member of the labour. Liberal party. Laughter ijust laughter i just joined, laughter ijustjoined, i laughter i just joined, i havent laughter ijustjoined, i havent been in politics for 50 years. I would just like to ask whether you would consider moving parliament to manchester, actually creating a Parliament Building which was less confrontational, may be on the idea ofa confrontational, may be on the idea of a circular parliament, something that would change the entire dynamic of the interaction between politicians. Would that be something that the liberal democrats would support . The lady with the microphone. My name is harriet. Im from monmouthshire. My question is more based on our new mps that have joined. Really exciting to see the number rising again in parliament but im wondering how carefully you are vetting them and whether or not you are actually vetting them to the same extent you would anybody else who was looking to stand . Ive been a lib dem supporter for 27 years, ever since i was 18 and could vote as my liberal values are incredibly important to me and im concerned that some of the people that have joined recently dont share those values and they are voting theirs voting records show their true colours. One more question about the north of england. Gentlemen there. You in the red, i think, england. Gentlemen there. You in the red, ithink, short. What england. Gentlemen there. You in the red, i think, short. What is your question, please . My name is john haig. I question, please . My name is john haig. Lam question, please . My name is john haig. I am a new member. Ijoined this year. My first conference. In order to this year. My first conference. In orderto gain this year. My first conference. In order to gain credibility in the north of england, you have to address the issues that cause all those brexit voters to vote for brexit. You need to do that in a credible way where you do some proper polling, proper analysis, documented in such a way that of the actual issues that caused those people to vote the way they did, misguided as it was, and address those questions specifically, making it absolutely clear you are doing that, then, with that credibility you will have some hope that those people will start to come around. Furthermore you will broaden the message as well. What of the liberal democrats going to do to address that specific set of questions . Thank you. In fact, we had a question i didnt have time to take about how we get the votes of the 52 people who voted to take back control, 52 of people who voted to ta ke control, 52 of people who voted to take back control. Well, first of all, mike and john, very welcome to our party. Wonderful to see you here with us. On the issue around parliament, i think the london centric nature of parliament is an issue. Could it be moved . You have suggested manchester, i might profit glasgow into the mix. Proffer. We should be looking at how to reform the way it operates too. I was really disappointed when i saw the artist impressions of the plans for the temporary chamber. Many of you will know that parliament is basically a massive fire risk at the moment. It needs a huge amount of work done to it to make it safe. And it had slightly dropped off the priority list. But after the fire at notre dame, it has rightly come back onto the agenda. But the temporary chamber is basically a carbon copy of the existing house of commons, which to me seems like a massive waste of an opportunity to try something different. I dont think it is impossible to have a more civilised politics within the house of Commons Chamber as it is. But i think it would be easier to try new ways of doing things if you had a different type of circular chamber or some other design and a temporary move is a perfect opportunity to do that. Therefore, currently it looks like it would be a missed opportunity. To harriets a question about the vetting, some of you will have seen the Parliamentary Party report yesterday when Alistair Carmichael talked about this. So there is a process for mps who want to defect to the liberal democrats. It is not the exact same process as anybody that wants to become an approved candidate, where they go through a full day of different assessment tasks, partly because some of those tasks are things like how to make a speech or mic to give a media interview, and clearly for people who have been members of parliament as experienced members of parliament, some of those skills are already in clear micro site and have been tested. Clear site. There is an in depth interview with the chief whip which is to test exactly that. And i am confident that all of those people who have joined and i am confident that all of those people who havejoined our and i am confident that all of those people who have joined our party in parliament do share our liberal values. They might not share our views on every single issue, but do you know what, conference, around this whole we dont all share views on every single issue as the lively debate that we have on this stage of testing. As liberals it is sometimes possible to reach a different conclusion on a particular policy issue from a liberal perspective. So the values i believe are there, they are being tested. And that is important. I will not have heckling, please. They are tested, importantly. I am sorry, you have had the opportunity to ask your question, and jo is answering it. Lets do her the courtesy of allowing her to answer instead of heckling. We will have no heckling from the audience, thank you. So there is that test in place and i am confident that those values are ones which we share. In terms ofjohns question, which is really important, how do we reach out, how do we address some of those genuine grievances which led to that brexit vote . Grievances which led to that brexit vote . As i think i said earlier, of course it is complex. But i think there are two large baskets of reasons why people voted leave. One is on Economic Issues. The other is on cultural issues. On Economic Issues i do think we need fundamental reform. The economy is not working as well as it should for people orfor our not working as well as it should for people or for our planet. And whether it is the policies we are debating tomorrow on the climate emergency, or some of the policies we have already debated about how we are able to help people who are on low incomes, we do have and need to put front and centre those policies which will make a difference to peoples lives. On the cultural issues, i think bluntly there is a battle going on in our country, who we are as a country is at stake. And i know that for me and for many of you, the morning after that referendum the dismay was notjust about eu institutions. It was about that deeper question of who we are, are we an open society . Do we value people coming here . Do we think we should work with others to get things done . Do we treat people as individuals and agree that everyone should have equality, no matter what their skin colour, their nationality, their religion . Those are the things which feel under threat and those are the things that we will stand up for as liberals. Thank you very much indeed, jo. And thank you to all of our questionnaires. I havejust got thank you to all of our questionnaires. I have just got one more. I think we will take little bit more time. It is from jill hope from north hants. A tory acquaintance ofjills, described you as fluffy. Jill says she knows you as fluffy. Jill says she knows you and knows that description is terribly wrong. How would you respond to the accusation of being fluffy . Well. Yeah. I wrote a whole book about unconscious bias, equality and so on. Lets just say i got elected to parliament as a 25 year old woman, so i have some experience of being underestimated. People only ever do it once. We will leave that conference for now. We will speak to our political correspondence, jonathan blake, he has been following this question and a nswer has been following this question and answer session with jo swinson, has been following this question and answer session withjo swinson, the leader of the liberal democrats. Jonathan, can you sum up the key points that were brought up by some of the members in that queue and a session . And there it is the chance for the members here at the liberal democrat conference to question the leader directly. They dont normally get the chance to do that. And because her, as you had, on various aspects of liberal democrats policy and her leadership. After all, this is her first conference as liberal democrat leader since she took over from Sir Vince Cable. Starting with that big issue of brexit, she was asked how the party could appeal to the concerns of leave voters, something you do not immediately associate the lib dems as doing, having a staunchly anti brexit message, campaigning today on the basis that they would revoke article 50 if they won a general election. They turned it around, saying that one of the reasons why people decided to vote to leave were connected to domestic issues, and the economy, other things that were associated with the status quo. She said of the party were able to win an election, it would set about addressing those. On her leadership, she said she was a very different leader in style to Sir Vince Cable and she does things differently. She had a big thing in her Election Campaign to be the leader of the lib dems, if what she saw as her ability to cut through in the media and becoming the first female leader of the lib dems is a significant factor as well. She talked more broadly at the end about other issues the liberal democrats are trying to focus on this weekend. The climate emergency. As they see it, eliminating the use of Single Use Plastics and universal equal marriage across the uk. Quite a broad range of questions. It is an easy crowd for her, frankly. There we re easy crowd for her, frankly. There were not any particularly difficult moments although one pointed question about the new mps coming on board to the lib dems, former tory and labourmps board to the lib dems, former tory and labour mps who some, in the party, while keen to Welcome New Members from all sides and mps from all signs, are slightly uneasy in terms of their voting record in the past and whether they share the same liberal values the Party Faithful here in bournemouth this weekend do. Jo swinson said, on that, that those new mps may well have different views on some policies but they are being tested and they made sure that they are a good fit for the liberal democrats and would be able to campaign on the Party Policies in future. Jonathan blake in bournemouth, thank you. David cameron has accused Prime Minister borisjohnson of not believing in brexit when hejoined the leave campaign in the run up to the referendum. An an extract from the former Prime Ministers memoir, published in the sunday times, says mrjohnson backed leave because it would help his political career. Heres our Political Correspondent peter saull. Johnson how do you do . Cameron are we going to do blue team . Do you want to go in goal or upfront . Ill go here. They once stood side by side. Two men with similar backgrounds, both in high office, playing for the same team. That was until the eu referendum. As his memoirs serialised in the sunday times testify, the then Prime Minister tried to persuade his old chum to back remain. David cameron writes this, the conclusion i am left with is he risked an outcome he did not believe in because it would help his political career. You could not accuse us of being anti european. Nor little englanders. There have long been questions about what motivated the poster boy of brexit. But is he really a true believer in the cause . His cabinet colleagues certainly think so. Remain would have been the easier career choice, borisjohnson led the campaign because he believes in brexit and is committed to delivering it. David cameron is disappointed with borisjohnson, but with other brexiteers, hes not pulling any punches. On michael gove, he writes. Michael gove, the liberal minded, carefully considered conservative intellectual, had become a foam flecked faragist, warning that the entire turkish population was about to come to britain. But today, michael gove was keeping his feelings to himself. He has accused you of being a faragist, of becoming a populist. How do you feel about that . Others, too, are in the firing line. David cameron says he was most shocked by claims from the then employment minister, now home secretary, priti patel. I was a minister in David Camerons government, it was a privilege to serve in that government, and i enjoyed working with him and many of my colleagues. Obviously, the referendum has happened, we have all moved on and the fact is we are now working to deliver that referendum mandate. That is so important. There is no point going over the past. More than three years after he resigned, David Cameron has broken his silence at a crucial time for both brexit and number tens current incumbent. Peter saull, bbc news. Iran has dismissed claims by the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, that it was responsible for two drone attacks on major oil plants in saudi arabia. Houthi rebels in neighbouring yemen had said they carried them out in revenge for saudi arabias Bombing Campaign against them. The attacks have badly hit the saudis Oil Production capacity and led to the a selling off of shares in Oil Companies on the Stock Exchange there this morning. Well lets go live now to washington dc. Where we can speak to professor Sara Vakhshouri who lectures at lecturer at the institute of World Politics and is an energy consultant. Thank you for speaking to us here on bbc news. Firstly, tell us more about the significance of these two targets . About the significance of these two targets . Well, saudi arabia is one of the largest producers and exporters of crude oil and one of the only countries with the Spare Capacity for this event of an interruption of supply. The target was the heart of saudi arabias production, where it is the biggest crude Oil Processing plant. It did not only have an impact on production, but i suspect capacity too. We have been talking about the impact it has had on the markets. What can we see . How will it affect us what can we see . How will it affect us at the petrol pumps . The market was lucky the incident happened on friday, they had two days to decide carefully a nd friday, they had two days to decide carefully and rationally about the pricing is. If the market was open and it happened during the week, it was going to have a harder and more Significant Impact on the market due to uncertainty. We do not expect a big shock on the prices on the market because saudi arabia currently has enough inventory is domestically to cover for these 5. 7 Million Barrels per day. For about 30 days. Saudi arabia also has inventory is around the world in japan, egypt, and europe. This is also along with inventory is china and the eu are holding. We do not expect to have a shock on the pricing. Or expect that the prices would raise but because of the premiums, affiliated with the uncertainty risk, because the market is still not sure how long saudi production will be suspended for and how fast, and also premiums involved with Political Sentiment on the market, there are worries that potentially such attacks and interruptions could happen more often in future. You talk about a lot of risk and forecasting. What does this tell you about the vulnerability of the region itself . I would like to speak about saudi arabia first, despite the proximity to iran and political status now, saudi arabia has a high resiliency on the market. The reason is, saudi arabia, in the last decade, has had a significant investment in energy and supply. Inside of the kingdom and supply. Inside of the kingdom and outside. There is the possibility for saudi arabia through infrastructure domestically. Nevertheless, there is the situation in the region that is so intense that the sentiment and risk involved in any time, any further targets and attack on facilities or any issue that could interrupt supply to the region or the world is really high. Professor, we understand that President Trump had a phone call with the saudi crown prince, saying that washington was ready to work with the kingdom and guarantee its security. This came via a white house statement. Does that calm fears or raise the risk of escalation . How does that help . fears or raise the risk of escalation . How does that help . Is a market watcher, we would want to engage with iran in a more constructive market sphere, which would bring calm to the market rather than such claims and threats that could increase the risk of further targets and further vulnerability. And a risk of supply interruption. The market expects more uncertainty and vulnerability and risks for the supply. The more the market senses the us and Global Community are engaging with a peacefully constructive dialogue, the risk is decreasing naturally. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Now its time for a look at the weather with susan powell. A real contrast in temperatures today, with the northern half of the uk seeing fresh conditions but the warmth holding on across the southern half of the uk. This cold weather front is the boundary line, bringing cloud and patches of rain, fresh conditions behind spreading southwards in the next 24 hour is. Cloud and patches of rain pushing south through the evening and overnight. Some clear spells and under clear skies, temperatures dip away. We do have some cloud and in those areas temperatures in double figures. They continue as we move into tomorrow. Pouty skies in central and southern england, patches of rain and drizzle, brightening across the north of wales, brighter spells behind that as well. Tomorrow, temperatures in the low to