Greens, pro-Palestine independents and Lib Dems: Could they bring Labour down?
The IndependentThe Green Party has been vindicated. The Liberal Democrats are the usual beneficiary of tactical voting in places where Labour couldn’t win, but the Greens showed that they could substitute for the Lib Dems in a few places. A government wrestling with the unpopularity of tough decisions could find itself losing votes not just to a resurgent Conservative Party on the right – or even to a Conservative Party doing slightly less badly than last time – but to an anti-government alliance to its left of Greens, pro-Palestinian independents and Lib Dems. The Lib Dems’ previous high point was 62 seats in the 2005 election, when they opposed the Iraq war under Charles Kennedy’s leadership – again taking a position seen as being to Labour’s left. Starmer’s landslide election win was magnified by tactical voting as Labour and Lib Dem voters engaged in an implicit electoral alliance against the Tories.
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