Leader backtracks on prediction of defections by Labour MPs but says Lib Dems are the natural middle ground nowTim Farron,the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has backtracked on claims that Labour MPs could defect to his party, or but insisted that it now mattered more than in a generation.
As the Lib Dem conference opened in Bournemouth,Farron said he hoped to stake a claim on the centre ground of politics in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader.
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Source: theguardian.com