Prime minister faces questions from MPs after Lee Anderson’s defection and controversy over Frank Hester as poll says voters want new leader for election
Ed Davey has launched the Liberal Democrats’ local election campaign with photocall which saw him upturning a large hourglass to reveal the words “Time’s running out Rishi!”. Davey claimed even lifelong Tory supporters were fed up with Sunak’s party. He said:
When I speak to lifelong Conservative voters, they tell me that the party no longer speaks for them. Time and time again, they are being failed by this appalling Conservative government.
This government has plunged our NHS into crisis. Left vulnerable people waiting hours for an ambulance, weeks to see a GP or a dentist, and months to start treatment for cancer.
My personal view is you’ve got to be a bit careful with far-left, far-right, with parties that carry quite a lot of support.
With respect, if we judged our labels by individual quotes from members, I think that would be an interesting strategy in itself.
They are clearly a party on the right of politics. I just think, if you get into far-left or far-right descriptors, and you behave fairly in this, you end up in the wrong territory.
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