GETTY Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron will hit out at Nigel Farage today

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In a speech in Edinburgh, the ardent Europhile is expected to claim Britain will be less "prosperous" and "secure" outside the European Union. Mr Farron will also blast Mr Farage for appearing at an anti-EU rally last week alongside former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway. He will say: "I turned on my telly the other day to see Nigel Farage and George Galloway sharing a platform, sharing a joke and sharing prejudices."

He is also expected to make a jibe at prominent Tories in favour of cutting ties with meddling Brussels bureaucrats. He will say they are "only one lurid blazer away" from being part of Eurosceptic backbencher John Redwood's fantasy cabinet. Anti-EU Cabinet members include Justice Secretary Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary.

GETTY The Europhile will mock the MEP for joking with George Galloway

Mr Farron will argue that the "decision to remain or to leave is the biggest in generations for our country". He will add: "If you want a Britain that is prosperous, secure, a Britain that matters, then you are voting to keep Britain in Europe. "The only party that is wholly in favour of a Scotland that is prosperous and secure within Europe and the United Kingdom is the Liberal Democrats."

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