He will also detail the party’s planned opposition to Tory moves to extend the right to buy to housing associations.
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“I realise there are some who feel that pinning our colours to the centre ground risks sounding a little insipid, a neither-on-the-one-hand-nor-on-the-other kind of party”, he said.
“However, my party is certainly not speaking for everyone”.
Speculation about defections has run at fever pitch since Mr Farron told the Standard last week that he had been in phone and text contact with Labour figures in despair at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
TIM FARRON botched his bid to woo Labour voters and MPs to the Lib Dems this weekend by describing some of Thatcher’s most divisive acts as “undoubtedly necessary”. You know, there are those that would like me to take this opportunity to distance myself from the past five years, to say it was all some awful mistake, to say: “I disagree with Nick”.
Mr Clegg listed Lib-Dem policies that had become reality in the Coalition years, including tax cuts for the low paid, the pupil premium, and raising the profile of mental health issues.
“New” Labour principles have no place in the Labour Party: they’re Tory values; let those who really believe them cross the floor.
Now Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party in what was an astonishing result by wining nearly 60 per cent of the vote, is it now the time for the enemy within the establishment who oppose him to bury the hatchet and let him get on with the job in hand?
In his first major policy announcement since becoming leader, the left-wing politician said England’s rail franchises would be brought under public ownership as the contracts for each one expire, media reports said.
Asked whether he would support an extension of the air campaign against IS – also known as Isis – Mr Farron said the West had to be “very cautious”. Half of Corbyn’s top team of ministers-in-waiting were prepared to back a call from Prime Minister David Cameron to sanction bombing against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, the Sunday Times said.
In a controversial break with tradition, the Lib Dem leader will say that the changes will have a “devastating” impact on millions of people and pledge to join Labour to defeat the government.
The Guardian journalist said: “He is the very antithesis of the negative caricature of an MP: he’s defined by his principles and beliefs, uninterested in personal self-advancement, and determined to use his platform to further the interests of people and causes that are otherwise ignored”.
Better information would inevitably lead to more people realising that most of Jeremy Corbyn’s present values,
including his economic beliefs, are good and right and rational.
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Mr Farron is due to spell out why the Lib Dems must be “the voice of small business”.
