If we talk about the sort of democratic culture we’d like to see - one where people have a greater say over what happens in their locality, nation and even globally - you start talking about constitutional change. I don’t think you can talk about what liberalism means without talking about the constitution (at least until certain basic reforms have been won). The trick is to get the narrative right.

Sadly though, I suspect that the resistance on high to us having a meaningful narrative goes hand-in-hand with the resistance to us campaigning on an overtly liberal platform. That’s why we keep ending up with these lists of policy-bites pledging extra spending/targets/etc.

I remember my father saying that ‘He won’t vote LibDem again because Kennedy has dropped the commitment to PR’. Quite where he got that idea I don’t know, but PR is certainly a factor for him.

Of course, there may not be many votes in constitutional reform, but we must be clear about it whether that is the case or not.