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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Tim Farron will seek to use his keynote conference speech to position the Lib Dems as the only alternative to the Conservatives.
The Lib Dems came from a distant fourth place in May’s local elections to win the seat with a 20 per cent swing.
But that increase hides the huge task they face to rebuild their parliamentary representation at Westminster where they now have eight MPs.
It also explicitly commits the Lib Dems to campaigning for freedom of movement for workers, as part of the single market’s four freedoms on labour, goods, services and capital.
“Particularly the Labour party choosing to go down a populist, I would say utterly unelectable route, the Conservative government feels utterly unaccountable because of a poor opposition”. “It’s not civilised to let people slip through the net”. “I hope people who voted the other way will forgive me for putting it in those sort of terms”.
Mr Farron will say: “Eight days ago our team in Sheffield kept right on until 10…but they weren’t the only ones working hard”.
SATS testing in primary schools should be scrapped because the exams are a distraction from teaching, Tim Farron will say today, as he warns that new grammar schools are “not the answer”. And what are we doing, in 2016, threatening to relegate 80 per cent of our children to education’s second division by returning to the 11 plus?
‘The Liberal Democrats have set out a clear plan to end the scourge of homelessness and ensure those at risk of losing their home are given the support they need.
But he said his party will continue to push for a “democratic” second referendum on the Brexit deal, which the party would reject. We know what we want and we know where we want to take our country.
“We trusted the British people on departure in the referendum last June, we should now trust them with destination”.
“I’ve seen enough bad old people’s homes and I’ve seen enough people who have had to wait forever for treatment – particularly people who don’t have someone to fight their corner”.
Former party leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who has returned to the Lib Dem front bench as Brexit spokesman, told the party conference the Tories were “up Brexit creek” and that “never mind a paddle, they don’t have a canoe”.
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Mr Cable said he was “not criticising” Mr Farron, but rather he wanted to “see more emphasis on what it is we want from these negotiations rather than arguing about the tactics and the means”.
