Davey warns that Nigel Farage wants to turn Britain into 'Trump's America'

Sir Ed Davey has utilized his keynote code to pass that the UK has a prime betwixt "the existent alteration radical crave", and a Reform authorities turning Britain into "Trump's America".

The person of the Liberal Democrats has sought to overgarment a representation of the state astatine a crossroads, and has heaped accusations connected Nigel Farage - suggesting helium would reverse weapon laws and scrap the NHS.

Sir Ed has spent the past fewer days of the party's league successful Bournemouth attacking tech titan Elon Musk and the Reform UK leader.

But present helium has utilized his code to effort and necktie the ideas of Mr Farage and President Trump unneurotic successful voters' minds.

He said: "Imagine surviving successful the Trump-inspired state Farage wants america to become.

"Where there's nary NHS, truthful patients are deed with crippling security bills. Or denied healthcare altogether.

"Where we wage Putin for costly fossil fuels and destruct our beauteous countryside with fracking - portion clime alteration rages on.

"Where weapon laws are rolled back, truthful schools person to thatch our children what to bash successful lawsuit of a wide shooting. Where societal media barons are escaped to poison young minds with impunity."

Sir Ed besides accused Mr Farage's enactment of allowing "the authorities [to] trample connected our basal rights and freedoms" by saying it volition propulsion the UK retired of the European Convention connected Human Rights (ECHR) - and of giving "tacit support" to racism and misogyny.

The Lib Dem claimed a Reform authorities would beryllium "where everything is successful a changeless authorities of chaos".

Under Mr Farage, those with intelligence wellness problems would beryllium told they are "making it up", and children with peculiar acquisition needs that they person "been wrongly diagnosed", Sir Ed said.

"That is Trump's America. Don't fto it go Farage's Britain," helium warned.

But Sir Ed has not lone attacked Reform UK for what could hap if they came to power, but besides for the "crisis", which helium accused Mr Farage of having already caused.

He pointed to the Reform leader's enactment for leaving the EU, which led to 27 existing migrant instrumentality agreements being abolished.

Sir Ed said: "He caused this [small boats] crisis, and helium should apologise.

"And look astatine this hypocrite's large announcement connected deportation past month.

"Look astatine what his program truly means. Sending men, women and children who person fled the Taliban backmost to Afghanistan to beryllium murdered by them. And adjacent paying the Taliban to bash it.

"That isn't patriotic. That isn't British. That isn't who we are.

"So overmuch that is breached successful our state contiguous is breached acknowledgment to Nigel Farage. And present helium wants to interruption it adjacent more. Unless we halt him."

In fact, Sir Ed straight mentioned Mr Farage by sanction successful his code 30 times, a constituent made by our governmental exertion Beth Rigby, who has argued that the Reform UK person is surviving 'rent-free' successful the Lib Dem's head.

Farage is allied with Musk, Putin and Trump, Davey claims

But Sir Ed besides had tech billionaire, Elon Musk, successful his sights erstwhile again.

The Lib Dem person repeated his allegation that the X proprietor was "inciting far-right violence" with his code astatine the "Unite the Kingdom" rally past weekend.

He called for the UK to basal up to Mr Musk, and for the authorities to "properly enforce our laws truthful helium can't get distant with inflicting harm connected our kids".

"Nigel Farage is connected the broadside of Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump," helium alleged. "Liberal Democrats are connected the broadside of the British people."

Sky News has approached X and Elon Musk for remark astir these comments that helium has made previously, but arsenic of work has received nary response.

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Trump is 'the biggest menace to the combat against cancer'

Another idiosyncratic to look Sir Ed's ire was President Trump, who the person accused of becoming "the biggest menace to the combat against cancer".

"The US is by acold the world's biggest funder of crab probe - mostly done its National Cancer Institute," the person said.

"But since Donald Trump returned to the White House, helium has cancelled hundreds of grants for crab probe projects.

"He's slashing billions of dollars from the National Cancer Institute's budget."

Sir Ed appealed for scientists who person had projects cancelled oregon backing chopped to "come present and decorativeness it successful the UK".

He said a dedicated strategy should beryllium established to let them to determination to enactment astatine British probe institutions, without having to wage ample visa fees.

He besides utilized his code to pledge to boost healthcare and crab probe much widely.

He told enactment members: "The UK should measurement up and say: if Trump won't backmost this research, we will.

"We'll boost backing for crab probe successful the UK. We'll rebuild a National Cancer Research Institute, aft it was closed nether the Conservatives, to coordinate probe and thrust it forward.

"We'll walk a Cancer Survival Research Act to guarantee backing for probe into the deadliest cancers."

He besides announced a "cast-iron guarantee" that each diligent successful the UK diagnosed with crab volition commencement attraction wrong 2 months nether the Liberal Democrats.

Sir Ed also:

• Urged the authorities to make a caller "coalition of the willing" to instrumentality connected Trump's tariffs
• Said helium would similar to triumph much seats than the Conservatives astatine the adjacent wide election, for the archetypal clip since 1910
• Appealed to accepted Tory voters and urged them to ballot for him "to reason this failing Labour government"