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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Horton

Vote Lib Dem or ‘regret it’ living under a Reform council, Davey tells voters

Ed Davey leaning on a gate with cows behind him at a dairy farm in Hampshire
Ed Davey visiting a dairy farm in Hampshire, one of five councils where the Lib Dems could win overall control. Photograph: Nick Warren/PA

Voters in the home counties will “regret it for a long time” if they do not back the Liberal Democrats and wake up to a Reform-led council, Ed Davey has said.

The Lib Dems leader has identified five councils – East Surrey, West Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex and Huntingdonshire – where his party could win overall control, as well as swathes of the former “blue wall” where Davey said it was a “straight fight” between his party and Reform at the English local elections.

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