Ed Davey’s party on course for biggest gain in seats for a century, defeating two cabinet ministers

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    4 months ago

    Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/tBxdk

    The article is still quoting the exit poll of 61 seats, but the Lib Dems are currently at 71 with one Lib Dem/SNP marginal still to declare…

    This is the best result by a third party in Britain since 1923!

    Also hopefully a huge future threat to the Tories if they now pivot right to head off the Reform surge - there’s now a massive wedge of seats from south-west London all the way out to Cornwall where moderate ex-Tory voters have gone Lib Dem and which the Tories will risk cementing as Lib Dem for a generation if they don’t tack back to the centre.