Nick Clegg gave his first major speech as deputy prime minister today and used it to announce his priorities for political reform.
He claimed the proposals amounted to the biggest shake-up of politics since the 19th century and among his targets were an end to the "surveilance state" and a fairer voting system.
In Westminster Michael White has been finding out how the speech went down with MPs.
David Davis, the Conservative former shadow home secretary (who stood down to fight a by-election on a civil liberties agenda) welcomed the first part of the speech - but said he could not support the changes in parliamentary rules.
Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said that he supported the approach but his party may have to be patient.
And Labour MP Paul Farrelly claimed that the speech was a smokescreen for other pledges the Lib Dem leader was having to drop.
Back in the Guardian's Kings Place studios, Jon Dennis discusses the finer points of Clegg's speech with legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch and Alan Travis, our home affairs editor.
