Dear John

Today, Boris Johnson has won the Tory leadership contest. He’ll soon take the keys to Number 10 - but he has shown time and time again that he isn’t fit to be Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson. Just ask Sir Kim Darroch or Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

Yesterday, I did not just become the leader of the Liberal Democrats. I became a candidate for Prime Minister.

There is no limit to my ambition for our party and for our movement.

But we need to do this together.

If you think that our country is headed in the wrong direction and you want to change that, you need to act too.

Shouting at the television is not enough. To make a difference, you need to join us.

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If you want an economy that works for people and for our planet, if you want to build a richer, greener and safer future and if you want to keep our family of nations united - the answer is simple.

Join us.

Let’s change politics so that we can transform our country.

Jo Swinson
Leader of the Liberal Democrats