Could there be a sadder sight today than Nick Clegg, intervening on behalf of his now tiny ‘minor party’ in the Queen’s Speech debate? The Lib Dem leader is responding to this afternoon, his first intervention since the general election, and plans to use his slot to complain that the Tories are already turning their backs on the ‘clear thread of liberalism’ that his party installed in the government. He will say:
‘So it is dispiriting – if pretty unsurprising – to see how quickly, instead of building on those achievements, the new Conservative Government is turning its back on that liberal stance.’
The ex-Lib Dem leader will add that ‘my party’s parliamentary presence may be reduced in size, but our mission is clearer than ever. As we did in the Coalition government, we will fight any attempt to weaken the fundamental rights of our citizens’.
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