Speaking to ITV LibDem MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough Tom Gordon was excoriating about Ed Davey after the party lost votes in the North:
“It’s really frustrating when we hear the party leadership and Ed Davey talking about the LibDems has been the antidote to Reform. Well, in places like Wakefield where Reform had beaten us. I think we need a better message. And quite frankly, when we’re seeing stunts about drinking, you know, Labour and the Tories need to wake up and smell the coffee. Quite frankly, so do Liberal Democrats too because all’s not rosy with us up here in North.”
Talk has gone around for months that the LibDem MPs are growing increasingly unhappy with Davey. Everyone wants their own slice of leadership drama today…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We say the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”