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26 April 2017

The Lib Dems’ troubled start doesn’t bode well for them

Rows over homosexuality and anti-Semitism are obscuring the party's anti-Brexit stance.

By Stephen Bush

Tim Farron has broken his silence on the question of whether or not gay sex is a sin. (He doesn’t.)

Frankly, this isn’t the start to the general election campaign that the Liberal Democrats would have wanted. Time that they hoped would be spent talking about how their man was the only one standing up to Brexit has instead been devoted to what Farron thinks about homosexuality.

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