Ming talks in today’s webcast about the today’s debate on climate change at Liberal Democrat party conference and about the keynote speech by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.

In today’s video from Liberal Democrat conference, Ming Campbell previews the opening night rally on civil liberties and human rights, where he will be speaking alongside the party’s Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg, Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty and Philippe Sands QC.

During this week’s Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, party leader Ming Campbell will be doing regular webcasts. In today’s, he looks ahead to the conference, which is themed around the environment.

Ming Campbell has today called for British troops to leave Iraq. You can back Ming’s call by signing his petition.

“It is time to recognise that British troops can do no more in Iraq.

“Their professionalism and dedication has been outstanding and their courage has been beyond belief.

“The Government is failing to answer the fundamental question about the military purpose they are serving and the political objective they are achieving by their continued presence.

“The level of casualties is unacceptable. We have a moral obligation to the young men and women of our armed forces.

“We should now set a framework for their withdrawal from Iraq.”

You can see Ming talking in more detail about why British forces should leave Iraq in this video.

Sign the online petition here.

Ming Campbell has written an article about Tory MP David Maclean’s Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill:

This was a self-inflicted blow by Parliament which will deeply damage its reputation.

The Bill was voted through by an unholy alliance of Conservative and Labour MPs.

It was also given unofficial support from the Government which, unusually, did not block it at Second Reading and instead appeared content to have its own Freedom of Information Act watered down.

You can read the full article on the New Statesman website.