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Tories were too focused on Reform to see Lib Dem threat, Theresa May says

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Theresa May now sits in the House of Lords. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

The Conservatives “failed to see the threat from the Liberal Democrats” while focusing too much on the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Theresa May has said.

Writing in the Times on the eve of the party’s annual conference in Birmingham, Lady May said the remaining candidates for the Tory leadership could “play into Reform’s hands” by failing to understand the reasons behind their electoral humiliation.

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