Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said his party “won’t give up the fight” to defeat “nasty populism” as he issued a rallying call to members on the first day of the party’s annual conference.
Speaking from the main stage, he took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform and billionaire X owner Elon Musk as he pointed back to his first ever political campaign, to successfully press for his college to boycott Barclays Bank because they invested in Apartheid-era South Africa.