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Lib Dems sleepwalking to irrelevance under Davey, says council leader
The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will be seeking to rally his party at their Brighton conference this week, amid a groundswell of disquiet over the party’s stagnant performance in the polls.
Channel 4 News
What the coverage shows
All three outlets frame the story around questions over Ed Davey’s leadership and whether the Lib Dems are performing strongly enough to justify his course. BBC is the only one that explicitly quotes Devon County Council leader Julian Brazil calling the party “sleepwalking to irrelevance,” while its other item foregrounds Davey’s own pitch about being a “firewall against Farage” and beating the party’s 2024 result. Sky News and Channel 4 both use question-led headlines about whether Davey is the right leader or whether the party should change course.
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