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PADDY ASHDOWN bemoaned the inaccuracy of pre-election polls yesterday, which he blamed for having “killed” the Liberal Democrats.
The Lib Dem peer and former leader, who backtracked on a promise to eat his own hat if the shock exit polls were right, turned his fury on pollsters that all predicted the Tories and Labour were neck and neck.
Admitting he has been “blindsided” by the result which has left his party with only eight MPs, losing a colossal 49 seats, Lord Ashdown suggested more people would have voted Lib Dem if the polls had shown the real situation.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP