“Otherwise you’re letting your opponent get stuff done instead”, Mr Farron said.
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And on education, he is expected to pledge to abolish primary SATs.
That is the grim puzzle that faced the party at its annual conference this week in Brighton.
He said: “We need to face the hard truth that the NHS needs more money – a lot more money – not just to stop it lurching from crisis to crisis but so that it can meet the needs and the challenges it will face in the years ahead”.
“We believe it’s right to pay a little more income tax in order to make sure that our wonderful NHS can continue to function”.
Earlier on Tuesday at a Liberal Democrat Christian Forum breakfast, the party’s president Baroness Brinton said Jesus’ forgiveness was needed in politics, especially in light of the levels of abuse within the Labour party.
The Lib Dem leader will point his finger at the “bullying” former Chancellor’s threat of a “punishment budget” as the “clincher” in the European Union referendum campaign as he makes his keynote speech at the party’s conference in Brighton.
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But that increase hides the huge task they face to rebuild their parliamentary representation at Westminster where they now have eight MPs.
The Lib Dem leader will recall his own experiences battling for a better home for his Alzheimer’s-suffering grandfather to demand better-funded health resources and a merger of NHS and care services. Nearly half of those surveyed said “don’t know”. “It’s not civilised to let people slip through the net”.
He will say he wants schools to be places “where children are inspired to learn, not stressed out by tests”. “To coin a phrase, I want my country back”.
He will also attack the government’s plans to expand grammar schools in England.
Farron said that uncertainty since June’s referendum, compounded by the likelihood of departure from the Single Market meant the Lib Dems have become “the free market, free trade, pro-business party” due to their avowedly pro-EU stance.
He was also forced to apologise to rights campaigner Peter Tatchell – after claiming Mr Tatchell agreed with his decision to vote against 2008’s Sexual Orientation Regulations.
Only his party can prevent a 25-year-long Conservative “stranglehold over government”, he insisted in his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat conference.
He will add: “The Liberal Democrats have a plan”.
“I don’t think that taking away the Green candidate and expecting that they will follow orders and jump into line behind us, I think it’s slightly presumptuous, I think it’s slightly insulting and I don’t think it’s liberal”.
Putting Europe at the centre of party policy is an attempt recover electoral ground after the Lib Dem’s hammering in the 2015 election when it was reduced to just eight MPs from 57, and lost the position of third largest party to the SNP.
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Mr Farron will reveal that a meeting with Leave voters after the referendum made him realise Mr Osborne’s warning of a harsh Budget if the country did not vote Remain backfired badly.
