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Tory Meltdown Alert as Voters Flee Before Local Polls

It’s no secret that Labour's been struggling lately, dropping from the high 40s in the polls to less than half that in just a year.

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Lib Dems hoping anti-Trump stance will give them boost in local elections

Labour and Tories’ reluctance to criticise US president could pave way for gains in May’s council and mayoral ballots

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Ed Davey has a cunning plan to win over the protest voters: speak globally, think locally

With local elections looming, the Lib Dem leader has moved on from Brexit in a bid to woo disillusioned former Tories

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Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’

Ministers urged to act as energy, water, car tax, TV licences and a string of other increases squeeze households

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Liberal Democrats take aim at Tory place as ‘party of Middle England’ in local elections

The Liberal Democrats are hoping to erode the Conservative vote at the local elections in May.

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Lib Dems take aim at Tory place as ‘party of Middle England’ in local elections

The Liberal Democrats are hoping to erode the Conservative vote at the local elections in May.

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Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else

The Conservative leader isn’t convincing fellow Tories that she possesses a viable route map to recovery

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Davey: ‘Disdainful’ Badenoch thinks fixing church roofs is beneath her

Her comments reveal the Tories’ ‘disdainful thinking’, the Lib Dem leader will say in a speech to his party’s spring conference.

Evening Standard

Poll has strongest Scottish support recorded for Reform UK

Analysis of the Survation poll for Quantum Communications put Reform on 14 seats.

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‘Country first, party second,’ says Starmer. So why menace Labour members who actually believe that?

Two party activists in Sussex who worked with the Lib Dems last year to kick out the Tories have been expelled. This is horribly short-sighted, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Revealed: House of Lords members have given £109m to political parties

Conservatives benefit most from donations provided either before or after peers secured their seats

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It’s the Kemi delusion: the more the Tories run towards Reform, the more their voters will run to the Lib Dems

Part of the genius of UK Conservatism used to be how it responded to chaos using the balm of tradition. Secondhand Trumpism will only alienate its voters further, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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‘Bizarrely, I enjoyed bungee jumping!’ How Ed Davey became the Tom Cruise of British politics

The Liberal Democrat leader’s summer of stunts ended in the party’s biggest electoral success ever – and managed to push social care up the agenda. His next project? Mastering TikTok

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Kemi Badenoch’s first task as Tory leader: say sorry to the people for her party’s failings

The Conservatives will only be taken seriously when they are honest about their multiple mistakes in government

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Geoffrey Cox missed winter fuel votes while working abroad in second job

Lib Dems say ‘public deserve better’ after Tory MP and lawyer spent several days working in Mauritius in September

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Tory centrists refuse to back Jenrick or Badenoch as MPs leave them disenfranchised

Tory members on the left of the party have started announcing they will boycott a leadership election with two right-wing candidates

The Independent UK

Your Tory Party conference questions answered by John Rentoul – from the leadership contest to donations

As the conference unfolds, our chief political commentator John Rentoul has been answering your burning questions on the leadership contest, the fallout from the election defeat, and more

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Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Labour, the Lib Dems and electoral reform

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

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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?

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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

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

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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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