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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

Rishi Sunak names July 4 for UK general election: What’s next?

Sunak announced general election which could signal an end to his Conservative Party’s 14 years of power in the UK.

Al Jazeera

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

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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

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

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

Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches

Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems pledge to clamp down on London sexual offences as party launches mayoral manifesto

Candidate Rob Blackie argues that victims are being ‘denied justice’

Evening Standard

The Post Office inquiry is finally exposing the part politicians played in the Horizon scandal

The government sold the service on the cheap to leaders whose principal focus was on its profits. This is the sorry result, says barrister Sam Fowles

The Guardian - UK

Alan Bates tells Post Office inquiry ministers tried to sabotage his claim

Campaigner at forefront of fight for justice over faulty Horizon system says government should have been involved far earlier

The Guardian - UK

Rats and cockroaches among thousands of pests found at English hospitals

Exclusive: NHS bosses forced to spend millions on pest control in decrepit, rundown buildings

The Guardian - UK

Tenfold rise in A&E patients waiting more than 24 hours for a bed

Figures show more than 150,000 patients waited more than 24 hours in A&E for a bed last year, most of them elderly or frail

The Guardian - UK

Water companies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges

Call for environmental emergency to be declared after data reveals 105% rise in raw sewage discharges over past 12 months

The Guardian - UK

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Ed Davey calls for cap on political donations after Frank Hester storm

Lib Dem leader uses conference speech to urge change ‘so that even the wealthiest racists cannot buy power’

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems to open conference with call to copy Biden’s tax on share buybacks

Exclusive: Money raised from a tax on companies buying their own shares could be used for green investment, party says

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Evening Standard

When and where is the Lib Dem spring party conference?

The event will take place across three days

The Guardian - UK

Extremists trying to tear us apart, says Rishi Sunak in impromptu No 10 speech

PM condemns ‘shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality’ in wake of Gaza war, in sometimes rambling address

The Guardian - UK

UK should impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, says Ed Davey

Lib Dem leader fears war will spread to West Bank if those pushing for more settlements are not penalised

Evening Standard

Sir Ed Davey says he should have apologised sooner for Horizon scandal role

Sir Ed served as post office minister under the coalition government from 2010 to 2012.

International Business Times UK

Rishi Sunak Under Fire For Trans Jibe When Murdered Teen's Mother Was In Commons

The teenager named Brianna Ghey died after repeatedly being stabbed with a knife in a park in Cheshire.

Evening Standard

Sir Ed Davey says sorry to Horizon victims for 'not seeing through Post Office lies'

Davey has been repeatedly targeted by Tory MPs since the Post Office scandal returned to the headlines

The Guardian - UK

Horizon scandal: Ed Davey sorry he ‘did not see through Post Office lies’

Lib Dem leader, who was business minister from 2010 to 2012, apologises for first time over his role in scandal

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