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• NickPalmer Posts: 21,919

  April 2017

  Interesting that 41% think a new centre party would be good, but the number who want to support the existing one is 7-11%, slightly down in both polls. Farron has been getting quite a bit of media coverage compared with historical LibDem exposure, so it's not that people aren't hearing anything.
  
  Rather, perhaps, that they're not really clear where the LibDems are on the spectrum. Leftists still remember the coalition, right-wingers remember the "more left than Labour" phase, and existingsupporters who left Labour over Iraq are a bit bemused to find they're in favour of missile strikes in Syria. Maybe they'd do better if they were clearly one thing or the other.

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• ydoethur Posts: 76,580

  April 2017

  Good grief.
  
  When was the last time a government had that sort of lead over an opposition? I'm guessing 1998.
  
  And Theresa May is no Tony Blair (although that's not necessarily a bad thing).
  
  I just cannot see how Labour recover from here this Parliament even with a new leader on these figures, especially since Corbyn seems to have contaminated the whole party in the minds of voters. Even 2025 might be hard work.

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