Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey, 57, falls out of kayak at party conference amid smear row with Labour
LIB Dem leader Sir Ed Davey makes a splash at his party conference.
Sir Ed, 57, fell from a kayak on day two of the Bournemouth meet-up.
But despite his own tumble, the Kingston and Surbiton MP plans to make the Tories sink in the polls with a proposed campaign to drop a pledge to build 380,000 homes a year.
The conference will vote on the motion tomorrow.
It comes after Labour threatened to report the Lib Dems to the police over by-election “smear” tactics.
The party sent a cease and desist letter alleging “cynical” behaviour against their candidate in the Mid-Bedfordshire contest.
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Sir Keir Starmer hopes to pull off an historic upset next month by overturning a 24,000 Tory majority in Nadine Dorries' old seat.
But he believes his candidate’s chances are being damaged by a “smear campaign” Labour claims could even be illegal.
Top Labour MP Peter Kyle - who is leading the campaign - claimed the Lib Dems have “gone feral” and were “wallowing in the gutter”.
But the Lib Dems shot back that his accusations amounted to nothing more than "dirty tricks".
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They accused Labour of a "desperate" ploy to derail their campaign