Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors

Self-described moderates say Ed Davey’s party offers them a home as Conservatives shift further right Climbing the party-branded stairs of the Brighton Centre with a Liberal Britain tote bag over his shoulder, Cody Butler looks quite at home at the Liberal Democrats’ annual jamboree.

But asked how he is finding it, the 21-year-old replied: “Odd. ” The former Tory activist resigned as chair of the One Nation Conservative Network and left his old party in…