Mr Farron believes this will make his party the only united voice during the Brexit negotiations backing full single market access and a liberal immigration policy, with Labour more divided on these issues.
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Making pledges on LGBT issues going forward, Mr Farron said: “On LGBT+ issues, how do you follow it?”
“I think the danger in all of this is that it’s all kind of political parlour discussions about coalitions and pacts and all the rest of it”.
“I’ve seen enough bad old people’s homes”, he will say.
“But the idea that people who voted for Brexit, voted for a blank sheet of paper is nonsense”. “It could be. If that gridlock were to lead to a real sense of drift and malaise, it could be a government of national unity of some description, where parties of different persuasions say they will act together for a period of time, in order to get the country out of the corner the Tories have got it into”, he told The Guardian.
Mr Farron is hardly a conservative leader of the Lib Dems.
But f ormer business secretary Sir Vince Cable has warned that a second referendum “is not a panacea to anything” and urged the party to accept the June 23 result and consider what concessions it is prepared to make.
Mr Farron wants the eventual Brexit deal negotiated by the Government to be put forward to the public in a referendum, with the option of remaining in the EU.
Mr Farron, who will speak at the Lib Dem conference later, accused Labour at Westminster of “turning away” from power, and claimed the Conservatives were “taking Wales for granted”. Party members are expected to overwhelmingly endorse it on Monday. “I want a society where people are valued for who they are”. “If we trusted the people to vote for our departure then we must trust the people to vote for our destination”.
“If we’re not on the side of those people, the people who are most cut out and disadvantaged by the unfairness in our society, then shame on us”.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen, I can’t see immediate circumstances it would but we don’t resile from the position we’ve have always held; that we want to be in the European Union”, he added.
“There were appalling lies told but we must be careful tactically and morally not to pat people on the head and say “you were lied to”.
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Stressing how the Lib Dems have a plan for a second poll on the actual Brexit deal, Mr Farron will add: “How dare they let bureaucrats in Whitehall and Brussels stitch up our future”.
