Liberal Democrat members have handed a very public rebuke to Ed Davey before his key speech to the party conference, rebelling in large numbers over a plan by the leadership to scrap national targets for housebuilding.
In a first tangible sign of internal pushback against the Davey-led idea of shaping the Lib Dems’ policy platform to tempt wavering Conservative voters to backing the party in so-called “blue wall” seats, members voted to maintain a target of 380,000 homes a year.
