Brexit may have seemed like the great USP last summer, but it isn’t now, hence the hard sell on the big ticket items like health and education.
The Liberal Democrats have said that their manifesto will include a proposal to scrap the Investigatory Powers Act, which was passed into law in November 2016.
“Isn’t that a bit insulting to voters?”
Farron has bet his election campaign on convincing many of those who voted Remain previous year to back his party on June 8.
“You should have your say on the Brexit deal in a referendum”.
They also pledged to make CCTV in slaughterhouses compulsory and to limit the export of live animals. But instead of encouraging them to stay here and contribute to keeping Britain at the forefront of cutting-edge research, this Conservative Brexit government forces them out.
In other words, how people voted in the Scottish referendum carried over into the general election, leading to the dominance of the SNP.
The Lib Dems claim they will prevent 40,000 premature deaths a year by cutting air pollution and more than double the production of green electricity to 60% by 2030.
The Prime Minster has reiterated that “no deal is better than a bad deal” and that the United Kingdom would walk away from Brussels if an agreement could not be reached.
“And if you don’t like that deal, you should have the choice to remain in the European Union“, he said.
The party is proposing a second referendum, “to give the people the final say” at the end of the two-year negotiating process.
A young voter has shown his commitment to his party with a haircut dedicated to the Liberal Democrats.
The Lib Democrats also committed to spending £6bn extra a year on NHS and social care, funded by a 1p rise in income tax.
Leader Tim Farron said the they offered a “brighter future” and a chance to reject the “extreme version of Brexit” pushed by Theresa May and Ukip’s Nigel Farage that would “wreck the future” of the UK.
AJ Bell senior analyst Tom Selby says: “If there is to be reform to pension tax relief, it should be done in a measured way and agreed cross-party. I think people feel that we have gone in the wrong direction and they sometimes wish they had someone like Bernard to stand up for them, I’m trying”. But that doesn’t mean I have changed what I believe.
It is not often that I accuse someone of being a cockroach during a Wales Today interview, but Mark Williams took it in typically good humour.