Jody Dunn at the Lib Dem Conference

The Telegraph

Despite some concern that a mood of excessive euphoria has been
generated this week, Mr Kennedy appears confident that the Lib Dems are in sight of a decisive breakthrough.

Jody Dunn, the party's candidate in next week's Hartlepool by-election, was given a standing ovation by the conference after declaring there was "no such thing as a safe Labour seat any more".

Mr Kennedy will make clear that the Conservatives are in the party's
sights - and that over the coming months he will seek to convince voters that the Lib Dems rather than the Tories now have a better chance of replacing Tony Blair.

He will claim that in most of the country "voting for the Conservatives is now a wasted vote". It was an argument once used against the Lib Dems.