100 Quotes by Jo Swinson

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

I joined the Lib Dem party at the Freshers' Fair at the London School of Economics.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

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.

My five years' experience working in small businesses and a multi-national company have helped me as an MP to understand the challenges that businesses face, however the bottom line is that it's up to constituents to judge whether you are good enough to do the job.

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

One of the initiatives I have pursued in Parliament has been to make it easier for the public to see what their MPs do in the House of Commons by removing the ban on Parliamentary filming appearing on YouTube or similar web sites.

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'.

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.