Tactical voting has ensured success for the Lib Dems and the Greens
Edwardian eyebrows would definitely have been raised at the idea of a Liberal party leader doing a bungee jump or making his policy pitch in a dripping wetsuit. But this week Sir Ed Davey managed to secure more seats for his Liberal Democrats, the party’s modern-day iteration, than at any time since the days of Liberal pomp under Asquith and Lloyd George.
In the “blue wall”, research on voters’ attitudes showed an admirable flexibility — as campaigners for the opposition parties saw it — to co-operate with on carving up the territory depending on who was best placed to deliver the outgoing Conservative government a kicking. “A party that doesn’t approve of FPTP has learnt how to use it”, said Robert Saunders, political historian. Political analysts, usually a circumspect breed, confessed themselves “stunned” by the scale of the tactical voting.
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