‘Like finding a new family’: young Tory defectors explore Lib Dems conference

Self-described moderates say they feel forced out of Kemi Badenoch’s party, and into the arms of Ed Davey’s 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…