Published in The Independent on 06 May 2015.
A surprising number of people are candid enough to admit that they voted Liberal Democrat in previous elections because they simply could not decide between Labour and the Tories. Others like the party’s policies or, more often, its local MP.
But in their strongholds, the Lib Dems have owed a good deal of their support to their status as the most credible local alternative to the Conservatives.
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