Tim Farron, the leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat party, called for a second referendum on Britain quitting the European Union to ensure the deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May has public support.
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Tim Farron will call for the abolition of primary school SATS tests and set out a radical programme for NHS funding in his final speech to Lib Dem conference today.
“If the Tories say: “We’ve had enough referendums”, I say: ‘You started it!’ How dare they let bureaucrats in Whitehall and Brussels stitch up our future?” he will say in a speech which was released overnight.
But splits have emerged within his party, with former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable urging it to focus more on the need to strike a good Brexit deal rather than a second plebiscite.
Mr Farron said the three should be contesting Labour’s leadership election. “They should be centre stage”, he said.
Continuing his attack on the Lib Dem leader, the Brexit campaigner said: “They voted for us to take back control of our lives, they voted for us to come out of the single market, they voted for us to make our own laws and control our own borders”.
Tim Farron will tell the Liberal Democrat conference that the party would rebrand the NHS to include a fully taxpayer-funded care service, warning that governments must be honest about raising taxes to ease the healthcare crisis.
‘I don’t blame the people in that church hall for their anger – actually, I share it.
He was due to suggest Mr Blair’s premiership needed to be re-appraised and that although the Labour prime minister was wrong on the Iraq war, he was right on other issues such as tax credits.
“Actually, the European Union is effectively a protectionist club that has shut itself off from numerous emerging parts of the world and I want Britain to be engaged on global basis – that is real internationalist”.
Mr Clegg, who has returned to the political front line as Lib Dem Brexit spokesman, insisted it was essential for British prosperity to remain in the single market, which allows free movement of trade and people. People should be free to love who they want and marry who they want. I know Jeremy Corbyn from some human rights work [and] I respect him enormously.
“Tony Blair’s government gave us the National Minimum Wage”, he told the party’s annual conference in Brighton.
He later doubled down on his comments, saying: “There are people in the party who don’t accept the outcome, who feel incredibly angry and feel it’s reversible, that somehow we can undo it”.
The Lib Dems also wish to increase housebuilding to at least 300,000 new homes a year, and bring an end to the Government’s policy of forcing local authorities to sell high value council homes.
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“We should be very careful about the company we keep”, Cable said. I ask her how long she’s been a member, and she pauses to think.
