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DARK SECRETS: 8 - The Real Truth

Lib Dems target ‘blue wall’ with blitz of 2m leaflets in Tory heartlands

Seats of Jeremy Hunt and Gillian Keegan included in long-planned assault, as party aims to persuade Labour supporters to lend them their votes

The Guardian - UK

Smaller parties may be squeezed out of UK election TV leadership debates

Lib Dems, Greens and SNP could lose out as broadcasters focus on head-to-heads between Sunak and Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Tories warned ‘no seat is safe’ as Lib Dems put Gove and Hunt on ‘big beast’ hit list

The Lib Dems have revealed their ‘big beast’ hit list of target Tory seats they believe they can win

The Independent UK

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General election 2024: How many seats could the Liberal Democrats and Reform UK win?

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will dominate the headlines, but The Independent looks at how smaller parties the Lib Dems and Reform UK might fare

The Independent UK

General election 2024: What are the Liberal Democrats' policies and who is their leader Ed Davey?

The Lib Dems want to clean several Tory failures by focusing on health, care, crumbling schools and sewage

Evening Standard

Labour, Lib Dems and Britain First fined by Electoral Commission for breaking election law

The Electoral Commission has found that Labour, the Lib Dems and far right party Britain First guity of breaking election law

The Independent UK

OPINION - The Conservatives are reaching terminal velocity in their flight from sanity

The real Conservative plot is a subversive struggle against reality. In last Thursday’s elections, the Tories lost 397 seats and Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens gained a total of 394; in Blackpool South, the by-election swing from the Conservatives to Labour was more than 20 per cent for…

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In defence of the Lib Dems’ record

Letters: Jane Dent calls out Labour’s hypocrisy about the party. Plus a letter from Tom Parkin

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems gain most council seats in last five years, party’s data shows

Party has gained 768 seats, Labour 545 and the Greens 480, while the Conservatives have lost 1,783

The Guardian - UK

Local elections drubbing shows time is nearly up for the Conservatives

Rob Ford was part of the BBC team analysing the local election results as they poured in over the past 48 hours. Here he tells how a dramatic set of results for the government unfolded

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems ‘on course to topple leading Tories’ in general election

Local election results in England justify the decision to focus on Conservative areas, claim party strategists

The Guardian - UK

‘Tories are woeful’: Lib Dems a whisker away from Wokingham majority

Tactical voting delivers only a near-victory for party in council election in the traditionally Conservative Berkshire stronghold

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems say council results show they can take Westminster seats from Tories

Ed Davey says ‘lifelong Conservative voters are backing the Lib Dems’ in constituencies party is targeting

The Guardian - UK

Capital's smaller parties plan 'historic breakthrough' on London Assembly

The Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK all believe they are on course to make significant gains at City Hall

Evening Standard

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The Lib Dems have lost their way – even some members admit it

Letters: Doubts about the role and direction of the Liberal Democrats are voiced by Michael Meadowcroft, Paul Lally, Gordon Vassell and Peter Loschi

The Guardian - UK

Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

The late elder statesman understood the need for a progressive realignment of British politics. That prize shouldn’t be lost, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Evening Standard

Former Lib Dem candidate urges voters to back Sadiq Khan - four years after criticizing 'two-horse race' argument

Siobhan Benita spent 18 months campaigning against Sadiq Khan in the last mayoral race - but now urges voters to back him

The Guardian - UK

Low-profile Lib Dems are flatlining in the polls – but don’t write them off

Reform UK is making the headlines but tactical voting can power Ed Davey’s party in seats where they are the Tories’ main challengers

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Ed Davey: ‘We need a cross-party agreement on social care’

Speaking ahead of the party’s spring conference, the Liberal Democrat leader challenges the Tories and Labour to find consensus on financial package for the NHS

Evening Standard

OPINION - Jeremy Hunt's Budget sold us the Big Lie of British politics — that we can afford our spending

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

The Guardian - UK

‘Get the Tories out’ will carry the election, but it won’t fix the faultlines of a broken politics

The duopoly at the centre of our electoral system promises stability, yet delivers anything but. Labour must be ready for that, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Evening Standard

Liberal Democrats bend the truth in latest election leaflet

The party has a reputation for telling porkies

The Independent UK

11 Cabinet ministers could lose their seats in upcoming election, according to Tory poll

A YouGov survey has predicted that several senior ministers are on track to lose their seats to Labour, Lib Dems and the SNP

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey’s approval rating takes a big hit from the Post Office scandal

Letter shows the Lib Dem leader initially refused to meet a campaigner when he was a minister responsible for the service

The Guardian - UK

The Lib Dems have a bold plan – and it is already working

Letter: The party’s president, Dr Mark Pack, responds to a letter from senior party members who argued that the Lib Dem offering must be more radical and less cautious. Plus letters from Dr Alan Butt Philip and Peter Wrigley

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