Lib Dem conference has just overwhelmingly voted to amend Lansley’s NHS bill. In the
end, the Lib Dem leadership simply accepted the amendments because it was so clear they were going to pass.
Evan Harris, the former Lib Dem MP, warned that the party would not accept the leadership simply ignoring these amendments. He said “we expect Liberal Democrats in government to follow what we overwhelmingly vote for.”
Harris predicted that if they went along with Lansley’s bill, the Lib Dems would be associating themselves with the “retoxification of the Tory brand”.
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