Election night update: 4am – it gets worse

Tim Farron is back in Parliament, safely elected in his Westmorland & Lonsdale constituency, and so is Alistair Carmichael in Orkney & Shetland who safely resisted the SNP advance.

But sadly we have lost Ed Davey in Kingston & Surbiton (to the Conservatives), Jenny Willott in Cardiff Central (to Labour), Duncan Hames in Chippenham and Mike Thornton in Eastleigh.

We also lost three seats that we were defending after the incumbant had retired – Redcar, Brent Central and North East Fife.

Follow the election night live blog here.

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.

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  • It’s not just bad news for the Lib Dems, it’s bad news to the poor, the disabled and for the UK. The Conservative may be pleased about wiping us out now, but when the economy flat lines because Brexit looms ever nearer, when Scotland goes, when low productivity catches up with them, when the housing bubble burst and there is no one else to take the flak they will be in charge of Lesser Britain a former industrial powerhouse with few options to rebuild.

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