The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, has accused Reform UK’s Nigel Farage of wanting to turn Britain into “Trump’s America”.
Addressing supporters and MPs at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, Davey praised both liberal and British values, stating the UK was in “a battle for the very future of our country,”, adding that the British people must decide “what kind of country we are,” and “what kind of country we want to become.”
He believed the UK was a country of “growth,” “opportunity,” “fairness,” “prosperity,” and “care.”
“Don’t let it become Farage’s Britain,” he told delegates.
While the Lib Dem leader may have been keen to reclaim ground from the right, he did not stray far from the subject of Farage, who has dominated the Lib Dem conference, and was no less prese