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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 | History Defined

Labour, the Lib Dems and electoral reform

Letters: Guardian readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece on how the two parties could work together

The Guardian - UK

The Lib Dems have prospered by swapping values for jet skis

By abandoning its core principles, Ed Davey’s party has enjoyed its most fruitful election performance. But do we want opposition that doesn’t stand for anything?

The Guardian - UK

Working together, Labour and the Lib Dems could exile the Tories for a generation

Starmer and Davey need to seize the moment. They have enough common ground to ally against their common enemy, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The Guardian view on the Lib Dems’ ambitions: to become the main opposition in Britain

Editorial: Sir Ed Davey is gambling that big ideas will give his party an advantage in the crisis-ridden and polarising conditions of the current era

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey calls for taskforce to ‘winterproof the NHS’ in conference closing speech

The Liberal Democrat leader used his conference speech to urge Sir Keir Starmer to ‘make this year the last winter crisis in our NHS’

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer and Ed Davey lead two different parties but face the same question: can the UK centre hold?

There is a clear, mutual respect between the two men who must oppose each other on one level but have comparable objectives, says journalist and author Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems hopeful of more election gains if Tory drift to right continues

Officials predict further gains if next Conservative leader focuses on winning back voters from Reform UK

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Ed Davey to urge Lib Dems ‘to finish the job’ and overtake the Tories

Finishing off the Tories will be the main focus of Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s conference speech, rather than attacking the Labour government

The Independent UK

Lib Dems put God on trial in court case of deselected Christian candidate

A deselected Christian candidate who is suing the Lib Dems has been told by the party that he must prove the truth of his faith in court

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hopefuls focused on ‘weird’ issues, Lib Dem deputy claims

Daisy Cooper said their ‘politics is weird, their choice of issues is weird, they talk about issues that are not relevant to most people in the country’

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage questioned over commitment to MP role by Lib Dem chief

Wendy Chamberlain questioned the priorities for Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage, both of whom host shows on GB News

The Independent UK

The Lib Dems are intoxicated by election success but they’ll need to be sober about what comes next

Is it a viable long-term strategy to press Labour from the left while aspiring to take more seats from the Tories?

The Guardian - UK

Former archbishop warns it may be ‘impossible’ to represent the Lib Dems and be Christian

As the Lib Dems gather to meet in Brighton for their annual conference, a legal dispute over the way a candidate was deselected for his Christian beliefs has seen the party disavow two of the giants in its recent history, Charles Kennedy and Shirley Williams

The Independent UK

Ed Davey: we can offer better opposition than ‘Punch and Judy’ Tories

On the eve of the Lib Dem conference, party leader talks up importance of social care – and being constructive

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Voters beginning to think Conservatives are ‘weird’, research suggests

Tories found to have problems with relatability, and few voters can identify party leadership candidates

The Guardian - UK

‘Does it have a Gail’s?’ How a bakery became middle-class England’s most powerful political bellwether

Seats hosting the upmarket chain were key to the Lib Dems’ Tory-ousting strategy in July’s election. But, after recent protests, Gail’s is much more controversial than it seems

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch wants to drag the Tories further right. That is a huge mistake

What voters want is a display of reliability and competence – but the current favourite for next leader has other ideas, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems plan to ‘finish the job’ in Tory heartlands, says Ed Davey

In first interview since the election, leader says party’s 72 MPs have a platform for the next parliament

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Tories must resist false choice of wooing either Reform or Lib Dem defectors, says thinktank

Ex-supporters have more in common, including doubts about Starmer and concerns on immigration, Onward says

The Independent UK

Mapped: Reform won five seats, but made gains in hundreds

Reform support ate into the Conservative vote

The Independent UK

Revealed: Tories made no real gains in any seat at general election

Conservatives only saw their vote share rise in a single seat across Great Britain, data reveals

Evening Standard

Ed Davey welcomes record number of Lib Dem MPs to Westminster HQ: 'The bungee jump really was worth it'

The Lib Dems gained 61 new seats in a record-breaking general election for the party

The Guardian - UK

Rise of smaller parties: key takeaways from voting patterns in UK election

Analysis of data from the 4 July ballot tells other stories beyond Labour landslide and Conservative collapse

The Guardian - UK

‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems

Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century

The Guardian - UK

‘A toddler could do better’: how Lib Dems won over Tory stronghold of Henley

The Oxfordshire town – the former seat of Michael Heseltine and Boris Johnson – has been a Tory seat from 1906 until now

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