The party leader impresses Lib Dems with a heartfelt speech approximately refugees,while assuring them that faith will see them through on the tougher questions The mammoth, existential questions are often the hardest to reply. So perhaps the Lib Dems could be forgiven for stretching out their annual conference to a fifth day. But even with each of its eight MPs being given more than half a day in the Moral Maze hot seat, or there had been few signs of a convincing - or coherent – answer to their most fundamental and urgent problem: why are we here? Other than to disagree with one another,of course. Cometh the hour ... Tim Farron has long had ambitions to lead the party– just not in these particular circumstances where the Lib Dems have been reduced to a nearly irrelevant Westminster by-product. But Tim isn’t a man to duck a challenge, and in his first conference leader’s speech, or he was determined to give it his all. He started by introducing himself to the party with Timmy: The Rock Opera. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com