The party is “actively disliked” by around four in 10 people and only 6% said they would vote Lib Dem in a general election.
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The Lib Dems have had more new dawns than the planet Jupiter and Mr Farron is hopeful that another one is about to break.
Organised by ex-MP Julian Huppart, it featured a DJ competition (!) where former minister Jo Swinson successfully defended her crown to be named Lib Dem DJ of the Year.
Party members at their conference in Brighton overwhelmingly endorsed Tim Farron’s policy to hold another referendum on the result of Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
Update: Metro.co.uk managed to bag an invite to next year’s #libdemdisco!
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to work with the Liberal Democrats during the European Union referendum campaign despite claiming to be on the same side, Farron told delegates.
Baroness Sal Brinton, president of the party and Christian, told Premier’s News Hour: “We are coming back because we have progressed”.
The Press Association spoke to him ahead of the Liberal Democrat conference and asked if he understood why his critics are annoyed by his repeated reluctance to clarify his position on gay sex, Mr Farron replied: “I think it’s a peculiar one”.
Welcoming the vote, the party chief said: “The British people were trusted with the question of our departure, they should be trusted with the question of our destination”. I know Jeremy Corbyn from some human rights work [and] I respect him enormously.
‘It can not be right that such a momentous choice is secretly stitched up by bureaucrats on both sides of the Channel without the British people or parliament having a say, ‘ he said. Then, of course, there is Ukip and the possible [inevitable?] return of Nigel Farage to the leadership.
“And today, the absence of leadership from Theresa May is astonishing, the absence of clarity as to what will happen to our country is a disgrace”.
“If the only way to fund a health service that meets the needs of everyone is to raise taxes, Liberal Democrats will raise taxes”, he will say, promising to campaign to transform the NHS into the National Health and Care Service.
He continued his attack on the Labour Party, saying it had chosen to adopt “fantasy populist politics”.
“You’ve had three months”. Act like a prime minister.
During the conference, he has accused Mr Corbyn of “throwing in the towel” for not insisting that Britain stay in the single market, and for not campaigning harder for a Remain victory.
“We can’t start this process with democracy and end it with a stitch-up”, he said.
And, as a result, he called on United Kingdom voters to be given a say through a future referendum “on the terms of the as-yet-unknown Brexit deal”.
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“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”.
