Asked about a split, a spokesman for Tim Farron said: “Vince joins the five other people who voted against the motion today”.
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“The Liberal Democrats are the only party fighting to keep Britain in the single market”.
Leon Duveen, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw, thinks it’s an idea that “won’t get any support” from party members.
At the last General Election in 2015, three of the four Lib Dem MPs in the Anglia region lost their seats. “Which means that the only thing standing between the Conservatives and a majority at the next election is the revival of the Liberal Democrats”.
It is therefore his first conference; so how’s he finding it? “But more grammar schools are not the answer”, he will say.
The Lib Dems are ready to raise taxes to save the NHS, Tim Farron is set to tell the party’s conference.
However, he does think that if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as leader and the party shifts further to the left it will “disenfranchise a lot of its supporters” who may then switch to the Liberal Democrats.
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. Given that saying anything positive about Blair is tantamount to thought crime in Corbynworld, Farron is probably the only party leader who will pay tribute to Labour’s three-times election victor this autumn and the pitch for the Labour, centrist vote was obvious.
Believing any deal the government negotiates for the United Kingdom outside the European Union will not be as beneficial to the british people as continued European Union membership, commits the Liberal Democrats to continue to campaign for the United Kingdom to remain a member of the EU.
Brenda Smith is from the New Forest. “Oh. that tells you how long”.
“I would rather we kept our own identity because I think you would struggle to find enough common ground to unite enough people for enough time”, she says.
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”.
Farron also said it was in the national interest to be part of Europe “for more jobs, for lower prices, to fight climate change, to stop terrorism, catch criminals, to have influence, to be a good neighbour, to stand tall, to stand proud, to matter”.
Recalling the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition, Brenda suggests that many Lib Dems would be “exceptionally wary” of doing anything over which it did not have full independence and which diluted its influence.
He warned: “Which side would we be on if there was a soft Brexit, would we support Theresa May or would we be with Nigel Farage voting it down?”
He said he “believed in working across party lines”, but he “couldn’t work with Jeremy Corbyn, because Jeremy Corbyn would never work with me”.
So the Lib Dems have a unique policy, which they will push and get valuable airtime for; always hard when you are the fourth party of British parliamentary politics.
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“We are there. We’re a centrist party”, she says, adding: “Anybody is welcome to join us”.
