Last week’s byelection losses saw huge swings to the best-placed Tory opponent – without any formal electoral pact
, the former president of YouGov Peter Kellner said: “The dramatic results in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton, certainly approach the disruptive end of the Richter scale. The reason is not just the sharp decline in Conservative support, but the ferocious way in which tactical voting compounded the Tories’ misery.
Now, however, Keir Starmer and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey are less polarising figures, and their parties less repellent to one another’s supporters. In fact, there is no need for a pact, or an arrangement with the SNP. Common sense on the part of voters could easily be enough.
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