Headington residents have asked David and me how far the coalition agreement satisfies the Lib Dem manifesto pledges for which they voted.

Here are links to the two most important documents, the coalition agreement and the manifesto, so that you can see for yourself how far Lib Dem objectives have been achieved through negotiation

I am attending a special conference on Sunday afternoon at the NEC in Birmingham as a voting rep for our constituency and it will be interesting to join in the debate. I confess that I had initial worries about the likely content of any coalition agreement with the Conservative Party as I felt that there was insufficient common ground between the policies and manifesto pledges of the Tories and the Lib Dems to make a coalition work:  now that I have read the negotiations agreements, I feel reassured that the coalition will enable the Lib Dems to make  substantial progress in achieving much of what we set out to do at the start of our election campaign, although there are clearly some issues on which we disagree profoundly! I think the Lib Dem negotiating team has done a good job. See what you think! We welcome your views.