New leader says party must rebuild, amid calls from some members to back rejoining EU
Ed Davey, the new Lib Dem leader, has warned his party that it was “diverted and distracted” by Brexit and must now refocus on voters’ more urgent concerns, as he faces mounting internal demands to formally back rejoining the European Union.
Davey said that three poor election results in the last five years demonstrated the party needed to listen to voters again, warning that the Lib Dems had “forgotten that we serve the community, we serve the people”.
