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Thursday, February 17, 2022

UK politics live: Labour and Lib Dems make ‘informal plan to topple Conservatives’

Latest updates: Keir Starmer’s party will fight ‘minimal campaign’ in Lib Dems’ top target seats at next general election, says report

Good morning. Labour will fight only a “minimal campaign” in most of the Lib Dems’ top 30 target seats at the next general election, in “an informal Lib-Lab plan to topple the Conservatives”, the FT’s George Parker and Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe (paywall) report.

The paper reports that Keir Starmer has told colleagues that Labour must “ruthlessly focus” resources on its target seats in the vote (which must be held by 2024) leaving the Lib Dems as the main challengers in some seats.

If Labour and the Liberal Democrats spend all their time and money trying to beat each other it’s really not good for progressive politics. We need to fight in the areas where we can win and that is the overwhelming priority.

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