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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.”
He said: “Expecting that lot to hold the government to account on the NHS or the economy would be like putting a bull in charge of repairing the china shop.”
Sir Ed’s own focus was on repairing the NHS, linking it with dealing with the social care crisis.
“We know that fixing the NHS will not be easy,” he said.
“The Conservative government broke it so badly, over so many years, that it will take a lot of work to put it back together.”
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