Farron in call for Lab/Con pro-EU party
FORMER Lib Dem leader Tim Farron wants pro-EU Tory and Labour MPs to “grow a flipping backbone” and form a new party.
Mr Farron said the Lib Dems would not join the new party, but would “work with them”.
The MP, who quit as Lib Dem leader after the 2017 election, spoke of the last breakaway centrist party.
He told Politico: “People shouldn’t fall into the mistake of thinking the SDP was a failure. “It really wasn’t.” He said the Liberal/SDP alliance got 26% of the vote in 1983 and was “very, very close to having made it”.
Mr Farron also said it was time Labour “sorted its act out, got a decent electable leader”.