Controversy over allegations of Labor and Liberal Democracy pacts deepened Monday night after an analysis by The Telegraph found that Labor had sided with Liberals in 10 times more constituencies in local elections than in the latest poll.
Both parties rejected official pacts, but an analysis of the Democratic Club’s candidate lists showed that Labor did not run against the Liberal Democrats in Britain’s 131 constituencies in Thursday’s election, compared to 14 in 14 in 2018. that more than half of these compartments were in the Southeast and Southwest.
Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey, the leaders concerned, denied any pact between the two parties, with the latter saying on Sunday: “There is no pact now. There will be no pact in the future. ”
It has also been proven that the Liberal Democrats did not nominate candidates against the Labor opposition in 711 districts, compared to 617 in 2018, according to an analysis by The Telegraph.
This came after data showed that Labor had reduced its candidates in the Liberal Democrats’ target region in the south-west by a third since 2018.
The number of seats offered on councils on Thursday has also increased by 21,352 since 2018, when the country goes to the polls, according to the Democracy Club. In 91 of these seats, only one candidate has risen, depriving tens of thousands of voters of their word.
Oliver Dowden, chairman of the Conservative Party, told The Telegraph: “This is further humiliating evidence of a murky behind-the-scenes agreement between Labor and the Liberal Democrats, who are quietly trying to sew certain seats behind closed doors and deny voters a democratic choice. .
“Labor and Liberal Democrat councils provide poorer local services and some of the highest municipal taxes in the country, so it’s no wonder they’re resorting to these tactics.”
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said the assumption that they were withdrawing from the candidates was “complete nonsense”, arguing that the change in the divisions had contributed to three per cent of the seats. “Parties always allocate resources in a pragmatic way to win as many seats as possible,” he added.
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