The Liberal Democrats have admitted breaching the human rights of an award-winning former BBC journalist by deselecting him as a parliamentary candidate over his Christian views. In a landmark case, Sir Ed Davey’s party has agreed to pay damages and legal costs, which could total more than £250,000, to David Campanale after it admitted to multiple counts of unlawful religious discrimination against him by a rival whom he had roundly defeated in the race to be the candidate for Sutton and Cheam ahead of the 2024 election. In admitting the claim in its entirety, the Lib Dems have accepted all the claims of repeated breaches of the law by MP Luke Taylor, who had come third in the selection process but, after forcing out Mr Campanale, replaced him on the day the election was called and went on to win the seat. Mr Taylor, is now the party’s spokesman for London, is named multiple times in court papers. A party source though noted that it was local party members who deselected Mr Campanale not Mr Taylor.…