Ed Davey urges One Nation Conservatives to join Lib Dems after Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech
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Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today.
In the letter, he says “Kemi Badenoch has decided to abandon the traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law”.
It comes after the Liberal Democrats launched an ad van outside Conservative Party conference, inviting those One Nation Conservatives who are appalled by their party’s lurch to the extremes to join their party.
Full text of the letter:
Dear friends,
Our country is at a crossroads.
The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.
I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.
So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.
We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.
So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.
With best wishes,
Ed Davey
ENDS
Notes to Editor:
See the ad van launched in Manchester this morning here
https://x.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1975882651874595057 https://x.com/LibDems/status/1975844885337919958
