Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable (centre) alongside Scottish leader Willie Rennie (far left) and Jo Swinson deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats at the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference at Hamilton Town Hall
SCOTTISH Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie is “keen to encourage” Labour and Tory MSPs to quit their parties and align with so-called independents south of the border, he said at the weekend.
Speaking at his party’s conference in Hamilton yesterday, Mr Rennie said there had been a “huge paradigm shift” in British politics.
But Labour said the Independent Group, which was formed in Westminster this week by leading Blairites and later joined by three pro-EU Tories, would end up in the “same irrelevant position” as the Scottish Lib Dems.
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