Sarah welcomes MEP colleague Edward McMillan-Scott to Liberal Democrats

5.00.00pm GMT Tue 16th Mar 2010

Sarah and Edward McMillan-Scott

Sarah welcomes her MEP colleague Edward McMillan-Scott who has left the Conservatives, where he was the Tories' most senior MEP, in order to join the Liberal Democrats.

Sarah said:

"I have long been an admirer of Edward, especially for his work on promotion of human rights and democracy in the world and for his leadership as a vice-president of the European Parliament. David Cameron has made the position of moderate, sensible, pro-European Conservatives intolerable in that party. No wonder they are coming over to the LibDems, the party of fairness, justice and internationalism."

Edward's press release can be read at:

http://www.emcmillanscott.com/8.html

and articles by him at

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/Edward-McMillanScott-After-my-unjust.6148963.jp?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/14/tory-euro-attack-mcmillan-scott