Layla Moran says Labour's Keir Starmer should be worried if she becomes leader of the Liberal Democrats

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• Layla Moran wants to make the Liberal Democrats "even more radical than Labour" if she becomes leader.
• The MP for Oxford West and Abingdon plans to push the party to the left if elected its new leader.
• "I will be more radical than Labour and I will be unapologetic about that," she said in an interview with Business Insider, in a warning to Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer.
• Moran is competing with Ed Davey and Wera Hobhouse to lead the party after its disappointing performance at the December general election.
• She said that not serving in Coalition with David Cameron's Conservatives makes her the best-placed candidate to renew the party and win back young voters.
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Layla Moran says Sir Keir Starmer should be worried if she becomes the next leader of the Liberal Democrats, telling Business Insider that she wants to push the party to the political left and be "even more radical than Labour."

Moran, the Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon, said she wanted to "fundamentally change how people perceive" the Liberal Democrats after the party's disappointing performance at the last general election.

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