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His speech lasted just under an hour. Here some of the most striking images from Tim Farron's address to the Lib Dem conference.
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Liberal Democrats give Tim Farron a standing ovation
And he is congratulated as he leaves the stage
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Closing his speech, Tim Farron says joining the Liberal Democrats is taking a risk, but with the UK facing what he calls "two horrific realities - Brexit and a Tory stranglehold on Britain - the biggest risk is that you don't join us".
He claims his party is "the only movement" who can stop Brexit and two decades of Tory rule and be "the real voice of opposition", adding:
Quote MessageTogether, we must win."
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Tim Farron says he wants the Liberal Democrats to "do a Trudeau".
Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau came from third in the polls to defeat the country's Conservatives and form a government in 2015.
"He's better looking than me and he's got a tattoo," jokes Mr Farron. "I can fix one of those things if you insist."
"I want us to be audacious and ambitious and accept the call of history," Tim Farron says.
He says Labour replaced the Liberals as the main "progressive" party in the first half of the 20th century and he wants the Lib Dems "to take our chance as the tectonic plates shift again".
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Image source, Getty ImagesTim Farron compares former Labour PM Tony Blair to the Stone Roses, joking: "I preferred the early work."
Mr Farron says he disagreed with Mr Blair over Iraq but pays tribute to him for introducing the minimum wage and tax credits and investing in public services.
Mr Farron contrasts this with Jeremy Corbyn who, he says "wouldn't share a platform" with him during the EU referendum campaign.
"Progressives should be prepared to put our differences aside" in order to oppose the Conservatives, the Lib Dem leader says.
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Of Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters, Tim Farron says: "Like all good Marxists, they've seized the means of production."
He jokes: "They've even seized the nurseries too, opening branches of Momentum kids."
Mr Farron suggests the alternative names of "Child Labour and, my personal favourite, Tiny Trots".
He accuses Labour of having "left the stage" and of not providing an effective opposition, and says the Lib Dems will do their job for them.
The Liberal Democrat leader moves onto education, pledging to end SATs tests in primary schools - which he condemns as a "box ticking" exercise which does nothing to broaden a children's learning.
He then goes onto attack Conservative government policy to expand grammar schools, saying generations of children were "liberated by comprehensive education", instead of being "consigned to second class status in a secondary modern".
He says the party will defend the "legacy" of Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams - who as Labour education secretary in the 1970s closed down many grammar schools and secondary moderns and replaced them with comprehensive schools.
Tim Farron moves to the Liberal Democrats' policy of bringing health and social care provision together
He says economist Sir William Beveridge, who drew up plans for a welfare state during World War Two, "would have proposed a National Health and Care Service" if he was working today.
Mr Farron calls his policy "a new deal for health and social care" and likens it to a Beveridge report for the 21st century.
The Lib Dem leader adds that the party would raise taxes if necessary to fund the policy.
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Tim Farron says he is "ashamed" of the UK's policy towards refugees, saying that when he was helping refugees in Lesbos earlier in the year an aid worker saw the country as "mean".
His passionate comments - echoing remarks he made last year - get people in the hall onto their feet, with a spontaneous round of applause
Tim Farron defends his call for a another referendum on the terms of a Brexit deal.
Quote MessageWe can't start this process with democracy and end it with a stitch-up."
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