Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Launching his party’s general election manifesto, Sir Ed said Britain “needs to be back at the heart of Europe” and stressed the Lib Dems “are a pro-European party”. Follow our live coverage of the general election campaign here open image in gallery Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey stressed his party has ‘put health and care at the heart’ of its manifesto, but the document also includes the aim to ‘fix the UK’s broken relationship with Europe’ And, just five years after Jo Swinson led the party’s disastrous 2019 general election campaign on a platform of stopping Brexit, Sir Ed has taken a markedly more moderate stance on Europe. “Getting a really good trade deal would be the absolute priority, then letting our young people be more mobile across Europe.” Also in the party’s manifesto was an eye-catching pledge to set up US-style legal cannabis shops in a bid to combat the harms caused by dangerous “skunk” currently sold by gangs to young people. open image in gallery Sir Ed enjoys a bike ride down a hill during a visit to Knighton in Wales And in another of the more eye-catching measures, aimed at tackling the housing crisis, the Lib Dems said they would support building 10 new garden cities as part of plans to build 380,000 new homes a year in the UK.