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> The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party

funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain

> The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about.

you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post

the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process