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Tim Farron’s pledge to voters: Lib Dems won’t make coalition deals
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Apr 22, 2017 08:03pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | Toby Helm and Ben Quinn |
| News Date | Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has ruled out any form of coalition with the Tories or Labour after the general election as he sets out a bold ambition to attract enough Remain voters to form the main opposition party in parliament.
In a dramatic shift of strategy for a party that entered coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 in the “national interest”, Farron said in an interview with the Observer that there will be “no deal, no deal with anybody” under any circumstances.
He insisted that both the Tories and Labour were intent on driving through a hard Brexit, which would include taking the UK out of the single market, and that his party had a duty to offer a distinct alternative, including a policy that would keep open a possibility of the UK staying in the EU.
“There is no way we can countenance any kind of arrangement or coalition with the Conservative party and likewise with the Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn,” Farron said. “He [Corbyn] accepted hard Brexit, he voted for it. He enabled it. It has put us in the situation we are now in.”
The move is clearly designed to reassure Tories who voted Remain in the EU referendum last June that he would not team up with Corbyn, as well as Labour Remainers who are angry with Corbyn over his Brexit policy, but who might be scared of voting Lib Dem if they thought the party could enter another coalition with the Conservatives. |
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