The Liberal Democrats are gathered in Bournemouth for their annual conference and the media hasn’t taken much notice. But according to the party’s leader Tim Farron, it’s the biggest conference since Liberal Democrats came together in the late 1980s. On the Today programme, Farron claimed the party was in a good position, having gained 20,000 new members since the election, and is poised to take advantage of the changing political times:
‘Over the last week and a half, we’re in a situation aren’t we where the tectonic plates of British politics have changed massively and we are in a situation where we alone stand as the one party who are socially just and economically credible.’
Given these shifting plates, there is a possibility that disaffected Labour MPs might switch sides. Farron revealed he’s had conversations with MPs but said ‘I won’t be drawn on that and I think I won’t be drawn on that because it would be indecent for me to do so’ — despite the fact he revealed the conversations in the first place.
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