But the trickiness of his task in leading a united party forward was exposed as foreign
affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell, a strong supporter of the Lib - Lab project, called for an unprecedented extension of co-operation with Labour to new policy areas including health and education.
Not exact matches
Sir
Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign
affairs spokesman, said he would have «no problem» with still being leader at the age of 72.
Menzies Campbell, the party's Foreign
Affairs Spokesman and an international athlete in his youth, joked that he fancied his chances in a 100 metres race with his colleagues.
Sir
Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign
affairs spokesman, will appear on The World at One on Thursday, followed by party president Mr Hughes on Friday.
Sir
Menzies, the Lib Dem foreign
affairs spokesman and acting leader, is writing to Mr Blair asking him to urge the US either to put the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on trial or release them.
Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir
Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign
affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.
Sir
Menzies will today announce his new home and foreign
affairs teams and is expected to confirm that Vincent Cable will remain as treasury
spokesman.
Menzies Campbell, the foreign
affairs spokesman, made an uncompromising attack on complacency and hypocrisy in his party, urging it to stop «saying different things to different people» and to adopt a clear set of mainstream proposals.
But Lady Williams also hints that - after nearly a decade as foreign
affairs spokesman - Sir
Menzies is still mastering the brief of domestic UK policy.
Prominent in the controversy has been
Menzies Campbell, the elegant Edinburgh barrister MP, his party's foreign
affairs spokesman and former Olympic sprinter.
Sir
Menzies became party leader at the beginning of March, and despite years as the party's foreign
affairs spokesman, has failed to land a punch on Mr Blair at prime minister's questions since then.
However Mr Huhne, now the bookmakers second favourite for the post, said he had given Sir
Menzies a «tacit» understanding of backing, that the foreign
affairs spokesman had subsequently released him from.
Sir
Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and foreign
affairs spokesman, said: «The SNP have done their sums on the back of an envelope.
The acting Liberal Democrat leader, Sir
Menzies Campbell, today tried to calm the nerves of his party reeling from the shock resignation of home
affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, and the lowest opinion poll rating in five years.
According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home
Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir
Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.
His comments come after Mr Clegg, the home
affairs spokesman, last night told an Observer fringe event that he would stand for the leadership whenever Sir
Menzies stepped down.
Modesty has characterised Lib Dem foreign
affairs spokesman Sir
Menzies Campbell's reaction to his hat trick of wins in this week's politics awards.
But the home
affairs spokesman is still relatively unknown to many members and could well lose an early contest to environment
spokesman Chris Huhne, who made a name for himself by running against Sir
Menzies last time round.