| "Nuclear energy seems to me to represent a legacy that our children and grandchildren could well do without." | | Sir Menzies Campbell |
After visiting the Eden Project in Cornwall earlier on Monday 23 January, 2006, the then Lib Dem leadership candidate stopped off at the college on South Road to chat with a group of politics students. Sir Menzies was the first of the leadership contenders to visit the Taunton constituency after the resignations of Charles Kennedy and Mark Oaten. He shrugged off suggestions that he was too old to stand as leader of the Liberal Democrats. "If I didn't think I was up for the job I wouldn't have put myself forward," he told the waiting reporters and students. "I think a leader needs three things: energy, values and judgment. If I didn't think I possessed the energy, values and judgment for the job I would not be a candidate." Go nuclear?  | | Jeremy Browne with Sir Menzies |
Sir Menzies said the environment was a key issue. We were in danger of leaving a dangerous legacy for future generations if Britain invested further in nuclear power, he said. "I don't believe there is any justification for further investment in nuclear energy. I think we need to look at alternative sources of energy, including wind and tidal power. "We should also be looking at changing people's habits and using the taxation system to encourage what is good for the environment and discourage what is bad for the environment. "Nuclear energy seems to me to represent a legacy that our children and grandchildren could well do without." | 
