TIM Farron hit out at SNP “extremism” on the campaign trail in Scotland yesterday.
The leader of the LibDems travelled to Edinburgh as they attempt to make gains at the local elections on May 4.
Farron said the push was going “amazingly well” and predicted success for his party in the capital and elsewhere.
On the SNP, he spoke of the “intolerance” and “extremism that is beneath the surface”, following comments made by Edinburgh City Council SNP group leader Frank Ross, which suggested pro-Union parties only call themselves “Scottish” as a branding exercise to win votes.
Farron said: “It’s the danger of ‘small-n’ nationalism of any kind and identity politics that people believe that those on the other side are somehow morally worse than them.”
He also called on Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson to “stand up to Theresa May” on the rape clause and said he was “disappointed” in her, adding: “Either she isn’t the decent person I suspected she might be or she’s really quite weak and the Scottish party is being run by a Conservative government at Westminster and they take no notice of Ruth Davidson.”
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