Monday 26 September 2022 12:44 AM Labour will target just TWO Liberal Democrat seats to win the next election in ... trends now
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Labour will attempt to strengthen an anti-Tory pact by targeting only two seats held by the Liberal Democrats in the next election.
Rather than have a ‘scattergun’ approach, Sir Keir Starmer will focus the Party’s efforts on seats that he thinks it can win against the incumbent Tories.
Sir Keir has previously denied accusations of forging a secret pact with the Lib Dems.
Labour will attempt to strengthen an anti-Tory pact by targeting only two seats held by the Liberal Democrats in the next election, according to a senior Labour source
But a senior Labour source told The Sunday Times: ‘If you look at the 120 or so key marginal seats, only one or two are Lib Dem-facing fights for us. It’s Sheffield Hallam and another seat in Scotland – all the others are non-fights with the Lib Dems.
‘Why would we take our resources and put them into a seat when it’s a Lib Dem-Tory fight? Why would we send the Shadow Cabinet to Tiverton and Honiton when we needed to win in Wakefield?
‘It’s pretty obvious that we are not going to be adopting a scattergun approach.’
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