It came as the party’s leadership faced a party rebellion over its attempt to backtrack on implementing house-building targets
They said: “One of the things we learned at the last election was that we have got to take people with us.”
But the candidate called for the party to talk more about the issue: “I think we need to foreground our position on Brexit a bit more, we need to be talking about it.” “I don’t think anybody has any doubt that the Liberal Democrats remain the most pro European UK party whatever Labour might be saying,” she told journalists.
“At the next election, and beyond the next election, Liberal Democrats will be making the economy and the health service our core issues,” he said.
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