Vice Chair of the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee Jeremy Hargreaves comments:

Simply hoping that candidates who reflected Britain’s full diversity would just come forward may have been a reasonable approach forty years ago – but you only have to look at our benches now to see how comprehensively it has failed.

Making our party reflect Britain’s diversity is a hard-headed decision about our party’s self-interest – bluntly, if we want people to vote for us, we have to look like them.

We need to take the difficult decisions so that we actually do that.

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