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A new opinion poll by Opinium has been released today, showing one fascinating detail: Labour voters prefer Jo Swinson, the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, to Jeremy Corbyn. It will come as a danger sign to the Labour Party, who have recently been haemorrhaging votes to the Lib Dems, with around a quarter of 2017 Labour voters now making the switch to the pro-European party. Commentators suggest that this…
Jo Swinson, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, has today released her party’s plan to prevent a ‘no deal Brexit’. The so-called “triple lock” would provide three ways to prevent no deal at any cost, including legislation at first, an election if that fails, and then, as a last resort, full revocation of Article 50 to prevent a ‘no deal’ Brexit “humiliating the country”. At a summit of opposition leaders…
Sitting Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge has urged Labour supporters to lend their support to other parties. The MP told a Labour meeting that voting for pro-EU parties was necessary. She called upon supporters to take ‘whatever action they need’ catching the pro-Brexit Labour leadership off guard. Labour have been crashing in the polls along with the Tories. The second poll in just a week has shown that the Liberal…
The Lib Dems have continued their surge in the latest European Parliament election poll, released tonight by BMG. In results which are increasingly getting the attention of journalists and voters alike, the latest figures put them up on their 2014 showing by an enormous 13%, and within striking distance of the pro-Brexit Labour Party. These poll figures will bolster growing evidence that the Lib Dems are the only pro-EU party…
The Liberal Democrats have beaten the Conservatives into fourth place in the latest Opinium poll, with 12% to the Tories’ 11%, in what will come as a major blow to Theresa May. The last time the Liberal Democrats or their predecessor party, the Liberals, defeated the Conservatives in a national election was in 1906 — and on these figures, the same could happen in just a fortnight. It comes as…
The latest polls for the European Parliament election on 23rd May have been published, with the latest two notably being done after the local elections, which saw the Liberal Democrats surge by 704 councillors and 10 councils, and the Green Party gain seats across the country also. Taking an average of these post-local election polls, the Liberal Democrats appear to have leapt ahead with 12% (+4% on the last tracker),…
The co-leader of the Green Party, Sian Berry, has today found herself under fire after revealing controversial Green foreign policy in a car-crash interview on LBC with Iain Dale. In the interview, Berry repeatedly affirmed the Green Party’s desire to leave NATO, one of the most successful international co-operations in history. It casts doubt on the Greens’ commitment to internationalism, with analysts claiming that withdrawal from NATO would be “offering…
The Liberal Democrats have emerged as the runaway winners of the 2019 local elections, as an unprecedented Lib Dem wave has swept England, with cataclysmic losses for the Conservative Party, and a net loss for the pro-Brexit Labour Party — despite being an opposition party to a nine-year government. The Lib Dems gained 704 seats at the final count, their largest gains of all time, and significantly in excess of…
The Torch’s first official Remain party poll tracker has been released today, showing the Liberal Democrats surging ahead, with the Greens languishing behind, and Change UK The Independent Group failing to break through. The tracker will be updated regularly as new polls are released, and analysis given below. The figures are based on the average of the past month’s polls for the European Parliament elections in May, and yielded the…
A shock poll has put the Liberal Democrats in first place in London for the upcoming European Parliament elections in May. The poll, conducted by YouGov, puts the Lib Dems on 23% in London, compared to 18% for Labour and 15% for the Conservatives. The Green Party received a mere 14%, dealing significant damage to their spurious claim to be the strongest pro-European party in the upcoming elections – lagging…