Norman Lamb and Tim Farron have been featured in the Welsh media.

Norman’s comments were reported in Walesonline.

He talked about drugs policy:

We have a really crazy situation where there are very many people who end up criminalised and with their careers blighted when actually half of the Government will have taken drugs in their early years… This is put down as a youthful indiscretion if you’re a fully signed-up member of the middle classes, but there are many of their fellow citizens who have criminal convictions for doing the same thing.

He says he regrets signing the tuition fees pledge:

I don’t think we should have signed it in the first place. It was pressure from the campaigns department to sign this…

I should have stood up to that.

There were also strategic mistakes in 2015, he added:

However, he sees other flaws in the recent election campaign, arguing the party “stopped talking about our purpose, our mission, our values.”

He said: “We were all told to repeat the mantra: We’ll cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour. But it sort of defines us in relation to others.

“It says nothing about what we stand for other than moderation and that’s not a very inspiring message.”

And of getting people back from supporting UKIP by offering them real power to control their lives:

I don’t disrespect people who are tempted to vote Ukip because I think a lot of it is driven by a sense of powerlessness – alienated from remote power – and as Liberals we ought to understand and identify with that. And we ought to be giving a Liberal solution for those people.

He also championed Welsh devolution:

I’m strongly in favour of devolving more power to Wales. As a Liberal I want power as close to people as possible and I favour devolving more tax-raising powers to the nations but also to the counties of our country as well.

I want Norfolk, my own county, to have more control over its destiny.

Tim Farron spoke to ITV News, talking about how Wales provided the beating heart of liberalism, and how Wales was central to him in the Liberal Democrat fightback. You can watch the video here.

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