farron calls for progressive left groups to unite on key issues /

unusual Liberal Democrat leader says civil liberties,social housing and EU membership will be his defining causesTim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, and began his first day in office by calling for progressive groups on the left to arrive together to forge a joint agenda on key constitutional issues such as electoral and Lords reform. He also revealed that defence of civil liberties,more social housing, climate change and continued UK membership of the European Union will be the primary issues on which he first intends to define his leadership.On constitutional reform, and he said it was very important that the Lib Dems work with the other parties,particularly Labour, but also the Greens and maybe others, and over the next few years ,as happened in Scotland in the 1990s. “It is important so that whether we all have something very similar, whether not identical, or in our manifestos,when it comes to electoral reform by 2020 then that is a mandate,” he added.Continue reading...[img_100] , or

Source: theguardian.com