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		</div><p>Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has warned Boris Johnson that being a woman will not stop her from toppling him as British Prime Minister.</p>
<p>The East Dunbartonshire MP told a rejuvenated party that the Conservative Party leader would find out that being a female was not a “weakness”.</p>
<p>She told members in Bournemouth in her closing speech: <em>“Boris Johnson’s insults of choice are rather revealing – big girl’s blouse, girly swot.</em></p>
<p><em>“But let me tell you conference, if he thinks being a woman is somehow a weakness, he’s about to find out: it is not.”</em></p>
<p>The 39-year-old compared Mr Johnson to a dictator for suspending Parliament and sacking 21 Tory MPs for rebelling against him.</p>
<p>Watched on by her mother Annette and husband Duncan Hames, a former MP, Ms Swinson told members that they must no longer view themselves as bit players in Westminster.</p>
<p>The party currently has 18 MPs – boosted by six defections this year alone – meaning it would need more than 300 additional seats to secure a majority in the House of Commons.</p>
<p>Yet the former minister has continually dismissed calls to join in a coalition with either Mr Johnson or Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn after the next general election, saying that neither are “fit” to lead the country.</p>
<p>Instead, she told conference: <em>“I am standing here as your candidate for prime minister.”</em></p>
<p>She added: <em>“We can win, we must win. And to do so, we must build the biggest liberal movement this country has ever seen.</em></p>
<p><em>“We cannot be satisfied with a place on the fringes of British politics, narrow and pure, small and irrelevant.</em></p>
<p><em>“Only a Liberal Democrat government can deliver the fair, inclusive and open future that we deserve.”</em></p>
<p>The party this week committed to cancelling Brexit without a referendum if Ms Swinson is elected to Downing Street.</p>
<p><em>“There is no Brexit that will be good for our country,”</em> she said.</p>
<p>Ms Swinson predicted that Brexit would “hurt” jobs and the British economy, while pouring scorn on the PM’s likelihood of securing a deal with the European Union.</p>
<p>Referring to his decision to pull out of a press conference in Luxembourg on Monday due to fears of not being heard over protests, she said: <em>“He claims he can negotiate a Brexit deal in a month.</em></p>
<p><em>“I wouldn’t hold much hope – yesterday he failed to negotiate where to have a press conference.”</em></p>
<p>She criticised the millions spent on preparing for a no-deal exit as “sickening” and compared leaving without an agreement as equivalent to “burning your own house down”.</p>
<p><em>“You might have insurance, but you’re still going to lose all your stuff,”</em> she explained.</p>
<p>Giving the final speech of the four-day gathering, she also confirmed the Lib Dems would introduce a budget based on wellbeing if it wins power.</p>
<p>The wellbeing budget would see government policy tested to determine how much happier it would make UK citizens.</p>
<p>To tackle climate change, she committed the party to bringing in climate risk reporting for businesses, reviving the Green Investment Bank scrapped by the Tories and putting together a citizens’ assembly on climate change to produce ideas for tackling the threat of global warming.</p>
<p>She also called for a public health approach to cutting knife crime, investing in schools and hospitals – a model based on Glasgow, where the city council reduced the murder rate by 70%.</p>
<p>Opening up about her personal motivation for taking the job of Lib Dem leader, the mother of two said she had been inspired to make a difference for her children, Andrew, aged one, and Gabriel, three.</p>
<p><em>“People often say to me, how do you do this with two young children,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“And of course, it is hard. Parenting is never easy.</em></p>
<p><em>“But they are why I am standing here. If I can do something to change the future, how could I not do this? There is too much at stake.”</em></p>
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