Lib Dems torn over whether to be voters’ first choice or the route to block Reform

Politics The Guardian By Peter Walker Senior political correspondent 22 Sep 2026 08:00 1 min read
Lib Dems torn over whether to be voters’ first choice or the route to block Reform

Party strategists say careful targeting of seats has paid off and should continue, but some say a wider vision is needed One of the more dramatic moments in a Liberal Democrat conference otherwise short of them came late on Sunday, when the party frontbencher Lisa Smart told the polling veteran John Curtice that, in effect, he no longer understood modern politics. Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignor

Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignored outside a few electoral strongholds. Smart’s response? In the new era of five- or six-party politics, and mass tactical voting, this does not matter.

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