Liberal Democrats leader Tim Farron laughs at a speakers impression during a Rally at the party’s Autumn Conference in Brighton, Sussex.
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In an interview with GQ he again ducked the question, insisting: “I think that everybody is utterly equal”.
‘It is about time the Government stopped fuelling the housing crisis and started tackling it, by building more homes, restoring housing benefit for young people and clamping down on rogue landlords’.
“What happens if you win? One non-Tory candidate with one cause: the people must have a say on Brexit deal”.
Mr Farron will declare the Lib Dems are ready to make the case for raising taxes to properly fund the health services and social care. He expressed “regret” that the SNP’s currency policy favouring a sterling union with the rest of the United Kingdom was presented as the only option, and said a future prospectus for independence should reflect a wider set of views, so that more supporters can see what they want to see in it.
Lib Dem MPs spoke of knocking on doors and being told by former supporters that they must back David Cameron in order to prevent an alliance between Ed Miliband and the SNP.
Mr Farron wants the eventual Brexit deal negotiated by the Government to be put forward to the public in a referendum, with the option of remaining in the EU. “If we trusted the people to vote for our departure then we must trust the people to vote for our destination”.
The Lib Dem conference has been dominated by the issue of Europe but Mr Farron will use his speech today to showcase the party’s wider agenda. During the campaign, one of the group’s organisers, a life-long SNP man, told me he had spoken with no fewer than nine local party conveners concerned at the impact of an influx of new members into their constituency branches. People should be free to love who they want and marry who they want.
“Carwyn Jones – and I praise him for it – obviously thought Kirsty Williams was the best person for the job and so I totally endorse what she’s doing”.
Mr Farron responded: “I think for many of us who did vote Remain, there is a sense of bereavement”.
“You have got to be guided by the evidence, whatever it might be”.
It came after Farron told Lib Dem conference delegates that the party would fight for both a second vote, and vowed to campaign in favour of European Union membership.
He said: “What an absolute outrage that a deal of any sort should be imposed on the British people without the British people choosing”.
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Mr Farron, too, was honest about the type of campaign waged if the Lib Dems get their second referendum.
