Ed Davey’s party on course for biggest gain in seats for a century, defeating two cabinet ministers
This fact the Tories got so thouroughly curb stomped by Labour and the Liberal Democats are now actually somewhat relevant gives me hope for this world.
The story of the ex-Tory PMs’ seats is fascinating too. There have been five Tory PMs since 2010, all in super safe Tory seats, and only one of those (Sunak’s seat) remains blue.
Witney (David Cameron’s former seat), Maidenhead (Theresa May’s former seat) and Henley (Boris Johnson’s first seat) - went Lib Dem.
Uxbridge (Boris Johnson’s second seat) and SW Norfolk (Liz Truss’s seat) - went Labour.
A pretty stark verdict by the voters on the track record of the Tories in office!
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.
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