Nick Clegg is promising that Britain will be more Liberal by 2015, when the next General Election will be held.

And he rightly boasts about a number of achievements already since the Coalition was formed such as the scrapping of ID cards, rolling back the DNA database etc and indeed if the legislative programme promised and agreed by the coalition does get through Parliament then indeed we will be a more Liberal nation.

Of course it will take longer to truly roll back much of the illiberalism of the past 30 or more years, and in fact perhaps the harder part will not be the changing of laws and new acts of parliament, but the changing of hearts and minds throughout our towns and communities.

Running tangent with more oppressive, restrictive legislation and Government of the past we have seen the growth of illiberal attitudes, a reduction of tolerance in society and a growing narrow mindedness to other attitudes or beliefs. A developed response from people increasingly withdrawn from society behind increasingly closed doors and minds to the outside world, their community, society.

I dearly hope the changes now being wrought at the top of the political pile start an avalanche of change in society, that will inevitably roll back the illiberalism of the past 30 years. But more than that a change that fundamentally develops more liberal views across the spectrum of our society and truly leads to the rebirth of liberal Britain. 

Not right, Not left, just liberal – the freedom to be different, the power to be free, the hope to be safe.