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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey playing tennis with deputy leader Daisy Cooper at St Ann's Tennis Courts in Brighton, before his keynote speech at the party's autumn conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, September 17, 2024
LIBERAL Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey vowed to finish off the Tories in his keynote speech to his party conference in Brighton today.
Pledging to repay voters’ trust, Sir Ed said that the party would build on its general election success, when it won 72 seats, almost all at the expense of the Conservatives.
The Tories remained “totally unfit to govern our country,” he said, dismissing the remaining Conservative leadership contenders as “out of touch with so many of their former voters.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY