What do the Liberal Democrat leadership candidates stand for?

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At first glance, there isn’t that much to choose between the two Liberal Democrat leadership candidates, Sir Edward Davey (53) and Jo Swinson (39).

They were both ministers in the Con-Lib Dem coalition government in 2010 to 2015 (Davey as energy secretary, Swinson as a business minister).

They both share a conventional progressive centre-left outlook. Both show an openness to working with other centrist/centre-left groups, particularly on Brexit. Both want to stop Brexit. Both rule out a coalition with Jeremy Corbyn’s “Brexiteer” Labour Party.