Tony blair plotting pro-eu comeback with lib dems over hard brexit

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Alistair Carmichael MP said: “Tony Blair is absolutely right to identify that only the Liberal Democrats are standing strong against the disastrous hard Brexit of Theresa May and Jeremy


Corbyn.” Casting himself as heir to Blair, Farron added: “1997 shows what can happen when a party is prepared to make a broad appeal to change Britain’s future for the better. “My message on


the eve of that anniversary is this: things can on his remarks as the party appealed for Labour supporters’ votes. Alistair Carmichael MP said: “Tony Blair is absolutely right to identify


that only the Liberal Democrats are standing strong against the disastrous hard Brexit of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.” Casting himself as heir to Blair, Farron added: “1997 shows what can


happen when a party is prepared to make a broad appeal to change Britain’s future for the better. “My message on the eve of that anniversary is this: things can only get better – but this


time with the Liberal Democrats. Back us and change Britain’s future. “I am urging voters, those who backed Labour in 1997, to come and vote for the Liberal Democrats.” Yesterday Corbyn


criticised Blair in his most personal speech of the campaign so far. He said the years of Tony Blair’s premiership showed what can go wrong if leaders go unchallenged because his Labour


government “bought into Conservative ideas” about the economy that left Britain with no defence against the global financial crisis.