Farron insists Lib Dems won’t do deals with major parties
LIBERAL Democrat leader Tim Farron yesterday said there were ‘no circumstances whatsoever’ in which he would enter into a coalition with either of the major parties.
Theresa May has accused Labour and the Lib Dems of planning a ‘coalition of chaos’ with the Scottish nationalists.
But Mr Farron rejected this, saying he could not work with Jeremy Corbyn.
He also dismissed talk of an informal arrangement, known as a supply and confidence deal, to offer his party’s support on budget measures and other key votes to help a minority Tory or Labour administration.
Challenged about the prospect of a political pact, Mr Farron told ITV’s Peston on Sunday: ‘No supply and confidence, no coalition, no deal.’
He insisted his party would not prop up a minority government, and said Labour ‘has not been behaving like an alternative government but is not even behaving like an opposition’.
‘The Liberal Democrats are determined to make [the election] a contest with a clear alternative position, and I don’t want people thinking a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a proxy for anything else.’
Mr Farron, a devout Christian, yesterday repeated that being gay was not a sin, but he would not answer a question on whether gay sex was a sin.