Nick Clegg's closing LibDem conference speech

BOURNEMOUTH (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg urged voters unhappy with the Labour government not to fall for "fake change" from the Conservatives in a speech closing his party's autumn conference.

Here are highlights from the speech:

AFGHANISTAN

"You cannot win a war on half horse power. We owe it to the young men and women serving in Helmand to give them all the political leadership and all the resources they need to do the job. We should either do this properly or we shouldn't do it at all.

"I say to the Prime Minister: time is running out. Unless you change course, there will be no choice but to withdraw, and that would be a betrayal of the servicemen and women who have already made such enormous sacrifices on our behalf."

PRIME MINISTER

"Let me tell you why I want to be Prime Minister. It's because I want to change our country for good.

"I want to be Prime Minister because I have spent half a lifetime imagining a better society. And I want to spend the next half making it happen."

CONSERVATIVES