Interview: Simon Hughes, Lib Dem candidate for Bermondsey & Old Southwark

Listen to the full interview above.

On joining the coalition: "It was the right decision to go into Government to deliver the things I thought were important."

On the 2014 Southwark elections: "We lost some very valuable councillors and that's a regret."

On the state of play in Bermondsey & Old Southwark: "We're working on the basis that it's very close but we're working on the basis that we are just ahead."

On who is funding his campaign: "The most significant donor on a regular basis has been James Palumbo and the Ministry of Sound."

On the £60,000 donation from the founder of Alpha hospitals: "I have never spoken to them about their business and promoting their business. I would not think it appropriate to do so."

On why he wants to win: "The reason my opponent does not deserve to be elected is that for five years he has been in a council which ... has acted against the interests of people in the north of the borough on a regular basis."

On taking a peerage if he loses his seat: "I don't believe in an unelected House of Lords so I won't go there."