Sir Ed Davey this afternoon issued an impassioned plea to Tory wets disillusioned with Kemi Badenoch: come home to the Lib Dems. The party leader gleefully encouraged the likes of Gavin Barwell to ‘come and talk’, as Badenoch delivered an ultimatum to her own ranks – back my policies or leave.

At a Westminster press conference convened to announce an official Lib Dem call for a ‘new Magna Carta’ to save Britain from ‘populists and tech tyrants’, Sir Ed found time to have a pop at Badenoch, whom he accused of ‘turning away lifelong conservatives’. He went........

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