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Caron Lindsay

Tim Farron’s Q & A with Scottish Party members: “Liberals, moderates, our time has come”

By Caron Lindsay | Sun 30th August 2015 - 10:56 am

Tim Farron came to Scotland on Thursday and spent an hour taking questions from party members at a very hastily arranged event at Party HQ in Edinburgh. Even though it hadn’t been organised until Tuesday afternoon, there was standing room only. A fair proportion of the audience was made up of new members.

He spoke about our place as a party, positioning ourselves as a party of economic credibility and compassion ready to stand up to the authoritarian governments in London and Edinburgh. His words complemented what Willie Rennie was saying about us being at the heart of the radical centre in his speech on Wednesday. 

It was very clear that he had been very strongly affected by his trip to Calais. His frustration at the misrepresentation of these vulnerable people in the press and by Government ministers was clear.

He promised to be back in Scotland many times for campaigning in the lead up to the Holyrood elections.

Here is a Storify thingy which covers the highlights:

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