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Ed Davey: Lib Dems on course for best ever winning streak with big gains in former Conservative heartlands
Ed Davey sounded a confident note with his close of poll statement: We are expecting to see big gains against the Conservatives in their former Middle England heartlands. Last year the Liberal ...
Liberal Democrat Voice5d
Update on election results
We have much to be pleased about. As I write Lib Dems have 327 Council places, up 131 on the previous results in those seats. The big story, of course, is that Reform has gained 575 while the ...
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Some thoughts on the brilliant Lib Dem results in the local elections
As usual, the Liberal Democrats are not getting the coverage we deserve for some pretty spectacular election results. The BBC spent most of its coverage talking up Reform, Lewis Goodall on the ...
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The success of Reform in recent elections should be a wake-up call
The recent by-elections should be a wake-up call for those voters who believe that their vote doesn’t have a power. It does. Go out and vote, support your freedom and use the right that people 200 ...
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So what can we expect today?
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Risk, Strategy and Reform UK
Of the 2024 Labour GE voters intending to switch for today’s locals, 28% intend to vote Lib Dem, compared to 26% for Reform and just 12% Green, so while concentrating on One Nation Tories may ...
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Ed Davey: Kemi Badenoch facing a “reckoning at the ballot box” as former Conservative voters rally behind Liberal Democrats
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True Blue Shropshire is now an Orange County – but Reform is lurking
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My predictions for the local elections
I’m challenging myself with a prediction of how the local elections will pan out. Admittedly, I don’t quite have the time or energy to go through each ward of each council up for election in ...
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Beating Reform will require a new economic settlement for the working class
Reform is on the rise. Led by the garrulous Farage, it is hoovering up votes across the country by doing one simple thing: articulating the grievances of the working classes. While it is ...
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Council Tax is broken – It’s time for Liberal Democrats to lead reform
Council tax certainly needs reform given its current unfairness, but this needs to be considered alongside a major rebalancing of tax away from central government towards local government. Sam ...
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Tom Arms’ World Review
Donald Trump says that the Kashmir problem goes back thousands of years and is very complicated, which is his way of saying that he doesn’t want to be involved. To be honest we can talk about ...