DANNY Alexander will claim today that the Lib Dems are the only party with a proper industrial strategy — in a speech at a university’s Margaret Thatcher building.

The Secretary Treasury will use his speech at the Said Business School in Oxford to chase the votes of bosses opposed to an EU referendum.

In the Lib Dem’s latest attempt to distance themselves from their toxic coalition record, he will say the Tories are putting party interests before the national interest by pledging to hold an in-out referendum.