Lib Dems split on the Rejoin question

It’s the first day of conference season and the Liberal Democrats are keen to make the most of it. This year their slogan is ‘For a fair deal’. But is renegotiating the Brexit deal really what they’re all about? Ahead of this weekend’s conference Sir Ed Davey was keen to put such talk to bed, claiming that rejoining the EU was ‘off the table’ and that his party wanted to instead focus on issues of greater concern to the public.

Not all of his front bench seem to have got the message though. Speaking on the first day of the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman Layla Moran told a fringe event: ‘We want to rejoin. We want, as part of it, to get back into the single market. We recognise that, in order to do that, we have to do stuff before, to get that relationship.