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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Heather Stewart

Cost of living, Brexit, sewage: how the Lib Dems plan to take Berkhamsted

Councillor Sally Symington, Daisy Cooper, MP for St Albans, and Victoria Collins, candidate for South West Hertfordshire, on the campaign trail in Berkhamsted.
Councillor Sally Symington, Daisy Cooper, MP for St Albans, and Victoria Collins, candidate for South West Hertfordshire, on the campaign trail in Berkhamsted. Photograph: Anna Gordon/The Guardian

Voters in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted have been sending Victoria Collins, the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate, videos of sewage. Out knocking on doors before local council elections in May, she claims the state of local waterways is an issue causing former Conservatives to move their vote.

“A lot of people are just horrified, because they’re really proud of the local countryside,” she says. “We’re talking to lifelong Tories who are saying, ‘now might be the time to change’.”

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