The above YouGov poll graphic comes from the New Statesman. YouGov political polling used to be unreliable and Tory biased. Those days are gone. YouGov is now a commercial polling organisation and it cant afford to simply produce eye catching polls of the Luke Tryl variety simply to get media coverage.
I’m not now and nor have I ever been a LibDem voter. I opposed the Clegg-Cameron Government and I am much less impressed than Ed Davey is with the EU (I voted Remain).
Even so with 72 MPs the LibDems have the largest third party presence in Parliament since 1923, the year in which they were being eclipsed by the rising Labour Party. In 2025 however it is part of the Tory vote they are attracting. Of their election target seats 26 out of 30 are currently Tory held.
Davey has recently complained, and rightly so, to BBC DG Tim Davie that Farage and Reform gets lots of coverage with a very small if endlessly variable number of MPs while the LibDems get little. The NS reports that while the LibDems are not pitching to the left of Labour as they did in 2010 one issue they find attracts support from both Labour and Tory voters is that of Netanyahu.
Why Labour voters, at least a potential 13%, might be switching to the LibDems can be speculated about but the interesting thing, LibDems aside, is that very few are going to Reform.
Of course the interest now is how a new left political formation impacts on all this and the opportunities it may open for positive change if not particularly at Westminster in the short term but at the grassroots in communities and workplaces..
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