Jo Swinson launches her party’s General Election campaign and insists “this is a not a normal election….people can choose a Liberal Democrat government.”
The Lib Dem bill supported by the SNP provides for an election on 9 December and ‘removes the threat’ of No Deal’, explains Jo Swinson.
“The country deserves a better choice for Downing Street than either him or Boris Johnson,” she says.
MPs should be ever-ready to assert the rights of Parliament over the Executive. But they should not be outsourcing the voters’ job to judges.
It sets the scene as the Conservative Conference opens by showing what the voters themselves make of the unfolding drama.
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Corbyn has been wily enough not to plunge into the Brexit trap set for him by Johnson.
It would also be dishonest to claim that the thought of voting Liberal Democrat did not flicker momentarily as we’ve veered towards knuckle-head, pound-shop Orbanism.
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The Lib Dem leader argues in her set-piece conference speech that “there is no Brexit that would be good for our country”.
Brexit has changed much for them, but less than one might think – at least when it comes to their strategic position at Westminster.
“Everybody can see that we are stuck that Brexit is in a mess and that there needs to be a way out of that.
The Prime Minister reminded everyone that he likes nothing better than to go out in rough seas.
Voters have a clear choice: vote Conservative or vote for further indecision, confusion and delay.