The Latest Breaking News from the Lib Dems

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

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

The Lib Dems have revealed their ‘big beast’ hit list of target Tory seats they believe they can 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 Lib Dems want to clean several Tory failures by focusing on health, care, crumbling schools and sewage

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

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…

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

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

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

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