The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, has been challenged by a member of the public to stop telling people who voted to leave the EU that they “didn’t know what they were voting for”. Mr Farron, campaigning in Oxfordshire, replied that he had “never said that”. In an exchange in the street, Mr Farron was urged to support Theresa May “to make Britain great again”.
But the Lib Dem leader said the best governments were the ones with the best opposition to “challenge them a bit”.
Some commentators have opined “this [Farron video] is a little bit like Gordon Bown’s ‘bigoted woman’ only less interesting and from an almost entirely fringe politician. Its not really clear how or why this is a story at all. Maybe we should have a referendum on the BBC’s output next!”