CAMERON 'PUT THE CON BACK IN CONSERVATIVE' Lib Dem Clegg blasts Tory leader.

Byline: James Lyons 

DAVID Cameron will be branded the "conman of British politics" today

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will make the claim in a blistering attack on his Conservative counterpart.

Clegg will mock the Tories' claim to be the "progressive" party and will accuse them of playing "phoney" politics by trying to convince voters they have changed.

He'll hit out in a speech to activists at the Lib Dem annual conference in Bournemouth.

Clegg will say of the Tories: "They'll promise whatever they think it takes to get elected. David Cameron is the conman of British politics. He's put the con back into the Conservatives, telling people what they want to hear."

Clegg - bidding to rally his troops less than nine months from a general election - will also insist the Lib Dems are "the only party offering change for real - change for good". He'll add: "The Tories simply believe it's their turn, that they don't have to work for it, they don't have to prove themselves.

"If you want things to be different, really different, you have to choose different.

"That's our message."

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