[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting polling on Starmer's speech. Support for the sentiment that "without fair immigration rules {which wasn't all he was saying] Britain risks becoming a nation of strangers" was 57% among Lib Dem voters.

They've still got a surprisingly large number of not particularly liberal voters, kept on board no doubt by a variety of things. Lots of their switchers, from memory, in 2024 were fairly conservative, often Brexit supporting "just get the Tories out" types, and they can likely get more next time if they campaign in more places. I suppose it's one reason Davey sometimes reaches for the sort of issues we've identified on this thread to stay relevant, rather than a more avowedly liberal approach.