"(Party leader) Tim Farron made it very clear.
Your browser doesn't recognise available video formats. Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble in calling an early election backfired spectacularly as her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament, throwing British politics into chaos.
"Like David Cameron before her, our Conservative Prime Minister rolled the dice with the future of our country out of sheer arrogance and vanity", he added.
Calling for a delay to the start of European Union exit talks, the Lib Dem leader said the electorate had rejected Mrs May's "extreme version of Brexit".
The Lib Dem case for a referendum on the final Brexit deal "will only get stronger" as the talks continue, he claimed.
"The negotiations should be put on hold until the Government has reassessed its priorities and set them out to the British public".
The campaign took the Prime Minister to 18 Tory seats, half of which were marginals, while Mrs May spent little time targeting Liberal Democrat seats, visiting only Richmond Park during her campaign. He called on May to delay the start of negotiations, urging her to "consider her future, then for once, consider her country's".
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The Lib Dem did increase their tally of Commons seats from nine to 14.
Meanwhile, the Lib Dems added to the SNP's woes by gaining Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross, Edinburgh West and Dunbartonshire East.
She won the seat to represent her local area from Labour in 2005 when she was just 25, becoming the first MP to have been born in the 1980s. "She has done the opposite of what Nick Clegg did, put herself before her country. she should be ashamed".
Luckily for May, she isn't planning to ask the Lib Dems for any help.
Norman Lamb, the former health minister who previously stood for the leadership, was also being discussed as a potential contender.
He said: "Not only did he lead our party into government for the first time in generations, he did so in the most hard of circumstances and for the most noble of reasons".
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