LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Ed Davey told his party today to target Tory voters at the next general election in the hope that it could hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.

Speaking to the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, he focused on challenging the government’s record on the NHS — drawing on family stories to emphasise failings in the treatment of cancer — and climate change.

Mr Davey has sought to make his party acceptable to voters who have previously backed the Tories by dropping proposals for a small tax increase and soft-pedalling its strong opposition to Brexit, although his pledge to “fix our broken relationship with Europe” won the loudest conference applause.