Regional and local elections: Interview with Simon Hughes MP

Regional and local elections: Interview with Simon Hughes MP; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: EXT Simon Hughes MP (Liberal Democrats Deputy Leader) interview SOT - The last thing our party wants is a leadership challenge / The results were poor / A day for sad reflection / We can rebuild from this / Nick (Clegg) is determined to see this through, as am I / Our job as liberal democrats is to make sure that everybody knows at the end of 5 years that this hasn't been a Tory government, this has been a coalition government / Fairer than any Tory government on its own would have been / There won't be the early, cosy warm glow of a new coalition with its agreement ink drying on the paper / Now a business arrangement for five years / Next bit of the agenda is to sort out the policy on the health service, where the Lib Dems have a different position from the Tories / David Cameron absolutely needs Nick Clegg / He has understood he has to listen to Nick / What Andrew Lansley came forward with (NHS reforms) was not in the coalition agreement / We need to go back to the drawing board, work is being done already / If we get that right it will show that Lib Dems punch above their weight