Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson insists she will NOT quit if she loses MPs after disastrous campaign
JO Swinson said she will refuse to quit if she loses MPs at the election after running a disastrous campaign.
The Lib Dem boss insisted she will not step aside no matter how woeful her results are on Thursday night.
But her party has plummeted in the polls and her personal ratings have taken a massive battering.
Asked directly on Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky if she will quit if she loses MPs, Ms Swinson said: “No.”
She added: “I was elected as leader of the Liberal Democrats four months ago and that’s a big job to be done and four months in I have already secured more MPs because of course we had 12 MPs at the last general election and when I became leader of the party.”
She added: “I am absolutely going to stay and I am excited about the future.”
Under Ms Swinson’s leadership the Lib Dems saw their ranks swell to 21 MPs after a string of high profile Labour and Tory defections.
But the party’s popularity has taken a battering during the election campaign, sinking from around 20 points in the polls to hovering just over 10 points.
The Lib Dem boss also hinted that she could do a deal to hand the keys to No10 to Labour if there is a hung Parliament – but only if Jeremy Corbyn quits as leader.
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She said Mr Corbyn is “not fit to be Prime Minister”.
But leaving the door open to a deal, she added: “There are clearly people within the Labour Party that I do work well with and have worked well with.
“In the last two and half, three and a half years we have been working on a cross-party basis to try to secure a People’s Vote and that kind of cooperation will absolutely continue, of course.”
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