Tim Farron declared his door was “wide open” to potential Labour defectors amid warnings Jeremy Corbyn’s party would be “slaughtered” by the Conservatives.
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Former Twickenham MP Sir Vince Cable suggested last week that the Lib Dems could disband and create a new liberal party, along with Labour moderates and disaffected Tories.
He told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: “We have got the Liberal Democrats“.
According to The Independent website, the general told The Sunday Times: “The Army just wouldn’t stand for it. The general staff would not allow a prime minister to jeopardise the security of this country and I think people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul to prevent that”.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has launched an extraordinary attack on the Conservative Government, saying it “doesn’t have a democratic mandate”.
Following speculation about defections, Mr Farron later refused to reveal how many Labour MPs had approached him after Mr Corbyn’s win.
‘What I hope emerges from this is the creation of a common sense centre-left formation made of sensible Labour, the Lib Dems and indeed some Tories who don’t like the direction of their party, ‘ he said.
“If we oppose harmful projects like Heathrow expansion and indulgent projects like the Garden Bridge, and support good projects like the Bakerloo line extension and a new cycle and pedestrian bridge from Canary Wharf to Rotherhithe, we will continue to see our support come back”.
But Clegg will say the election of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader this month has muddied the waters. If anything, more of our politics should be done like this.
They include trying to block the forced sell-off of housing association homes; lifting a borrowing cap so town halls can build more houses, and banning developers from advertising properties to foreign buyers before they advertise them in the UK.
“They have a dilemma”.
After a first week marred by a row over his failure to sing the national anthem at a Battle of Britain memorial event and policy splits emerging within his newly-formed shadow cabinet, Mr Corbyn has now found his leadership the subject of global ridicule.
Which of those are not Labour Party aims and values?
Mr Clegg will say: “The stakes could not be higher: not just one, but two, unions now hang in the balance”. And the former deputy prime minister avoided answering when asked if he would encourage them to do so.
“I marched alongside Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn, one on either side”.
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“We will be working with people like that, of course”. It is conceivable. It’s a vast area, we need to work in it, cooperate across parties.
