"The Liberal Democrats are the only remaining block against the forces of darkness led by Nigel Farage, Ed Davey has told his party's annual conference in a speech that repeatedly and at times personally took aim at the Reform UK leader. With Lib Dem strategists increasingly believing that Reform has become the party's main opponent, Davey sought to yoke Farage directly to Donald Trump, arguing that if he won power, Reform would implement many of the same policies including a relaxation of gun laws."
"Imagine living in the Trump-inspired country Farage wants us to become, he said. Where there's no NHS, so patients are hit with crippling insurance bills. Or denied healthcare altogether. Where we pay Putin for expensive fossil fuels and destroy our beautiful countryside with fracking, while climate change rages on. Where gun laws are rolled back, so schools have to teach our children what to do in case of a mass shooting."
The Liberal Democrats portray Nigel Farage's Reform UK as aligned with Donald Trump and warn of a potential rollback of rights and public services under Reform. The party warns that a Reform government would relax gun laws, dismantle the NHS, enable racism and misogyny, and reverse climate protections by relying on expensive fossil fuels and permitting fracking. The claim about relaxed handgun bans traces to Farage's 2014 comment while UKip leader. Reform UK denies relaxed gun laws as party policy and dismissed the Liberal Democrats as an irrelevant laughing stock. The Liberal Democrats aim to win more seats than the Conservatives and position themselves against Labour continuity.
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