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Rebuilding the Lib Dem Vote – a Cornish perspective

By Robert Irwin | Thu 16th November 2017 - 12:45 pm

I attended a talk given by Dan Rogerson (ex-DEFRA Minister and ex-MP for North Cornwall) at a St Austell & Newquay Lib Dems meeting. Dan was extremely interesting regarding the vote in Cornwall – we used to have six MPs out of six constituencies, but now there are six Tories – as to how to rebuild our vote.

Firstly, the historical Cornish nonconformist Liberal vote has shrunk as more incomers arrive bringing two-party politics

Secondly, we have done well in the past when the Tories are weak, building up to sixty MPs during …

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