Lib Dems 'to distance themselves' from coalition at party conference

The main messages from the Liberal Democrats at their party conference this weekend will be focused on jobs and pay.

Party leader Nick Clegg will address a rally in Glasgow on Saturday night to talk about jobs, and he will also praise the coalition government's record of getting people back into work.

However, don't expect all of the conference to be full of coalition 'happy talk'.

Liberal Democrat sources have revealed that this conference will see them starting to put a bit of distance between themselves and the Conservatives in government.

The party are going to lift the veil on some of the things in the coalition that they haven't been very happy about.

This is all part of a process of the Liberal Democrats trying to reposition themselves in the centre ground ahead of the next election.