The Liberal Democrats stood on a firmly pro-Europe platform at the 2017 general election but won only 12 seats and saw their popular vote fall, leading to the resignation of leader Tim Farron.
The Liberal Democrats suspended former leader Lord Steel on Thursday night after he gave evidence to the inquiry into historic sex abuse and admitted paedophile MP Cyril Smith had confessed to him about his crimes back in the 1970s.
“So you understand that he’d actually committed these offences from what he said to you?” asked Brian Altman, QC, counsel to the inquiry.”I assumed that,” Steel replied.
“No, because it was before he was an MP, before he was a member of my party. It had nothing to do with me,” Steel said.