Both parties refused formal agreements, but an analysis of the candidate lists provided by the Democracy Club showed that, for Thursday’s election, Labor did not run against the Liberal Democrats in 131 boroughs in England, compared to 14 in 2018. Evidence shows that more than half of these chambers were located in the Southeast and Southwest. Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey, the respective leaders, have denied that there is an agreement between the two parties, with the latter saying on Sunday: “There is no agreement now. “There will be no agreement in the future.” The Liberal Democrats also proved not to be running against Labor in 711 constituencies, up from 617 in 2018, according to The Telegraph. It came after data showed that Labor had reduced its candidates in the Liberal Democrats’ target area on the Southwest by a third since 2018. The number of council seats offered on Thursday has also increased from 2018, to 21,352 this year, when the country goes to the polls, according to the Democracy Club. In 91 of these seats, only one candidate was nominated, depriving tens of thousands of voters of their opinion. Conservative leader Oliver Dowden told The Telegraph: “This is further catastrophic evidence of a blurred back-to-back deal between Labor and the Liberal Democrats, who are silently trying to snap a few seats behind closed doors and deny a vote of no confidence. democratic choice. “Labor and Liberal Democrat councils offer worse local services and some of the highest municipal taxes in the country, so it is not surprising that they resort to these tactics.” A Liberal Democrat spokesman said the proposal to withdraw candidates was “utter nonsense”, arguing that change in the constituencies had contributed to 3% of the seats. “Parties always allocate resources in a realistic way to win as many seats as possible,” he added.
