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Ed Davey will promise to “offer hope on health” and “finish the job” of defeating Tories

Ed Davey will use his party conference speech tomorrow to attack the Tories and position the Lib Dems as the party of the NHS.

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On the final day of the Lib Dem conference in Brighton tomorrow, party leader Ed Davey will say that fixing the NHS “must be done”.

He will go on to say that “the Conservative government broke it [the NHS] so badly, over so many years, that it will take a lot of work to put it back together”.

In terms of policy, Davey will say that the Lib Dems will adopt “a whole new focus on community services”, citing the need for more GPs, more NHS dentists and more community pharmacists.

When I spoke to Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper, she credited their election success to putting “the NHS and care front and centre” of their campaign. The 2024 election saw 72 Liberal Democrat MPs elected, up from 11 in 2019, and their highest tally for over a century.

Ed Davey will echo Cooper’s message in his speech tomorrow, arguing that the party focused on the people’s priorities and offered a “clear message of hope” regarding the NHS and social care. Turning to the future, Davey will promise to repay “the people’s trust” in full, and continue to campaign on the cost of living, ending “the sewage scandal”, protecting the environment and fixing “the NHS and care crisis”.

With the Lib Dems gaining the majority of their seats at the expense of the Tories, Davey will go on the attack tomorrow in his speech, promising to “finish the job” of defeating the Conservatives. He will argue that they are “totally unfit to govern our country” and that they are “unfit for opposition too”.

As a clear pitch to potential Lib Dems supporters, he will argue that the “modern Conservative Party is so out of touch with so many of their former voters” and that it no longer deserves a place “at the top table of our politics”.

The Lib Dems said yesterday that this October’s Autumn Budget statement should have the NHS as its “top priority”. Tomorrow Ed Davey will suggest that Conservatives cannot provide sufficient scrutiny to Labour’s first budget, asking: “surely it’s not a job for the Tory geniuses who cheered Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng to the rafters”.

Regarding the 4 remaining Conservative leadership candidates, Davey will argue that the party is “scraping the bottom of the barrel” and that as ministers, the candidates “didn’t care about real people’s everyday problems”.

To conclude, Davey will suggest that Britain’s biggest challenges must be met with “guts, determination and hope”. He will accuse the Conservatives of pretending that problems don’t exist, and Labour of espousing “pessimism and defeatism”.

“So we will cut through the Government’s doom and gloom with our ambition for our country”

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