Several analysts, including some not given to hyperbole, are musing about a realignment, with the Lib Dems potentially replacing Labour as the lead opponents of Brexit and Nigel Farage’s Brexit party. Does that mean Cable, handing over just as things are looking up, has had second thoughts? Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The GuardianHe does not claim too much personal credit for the Lib Dem renaissance. The local advances, he says, were the fruit of old-fashioned Lib Dem graft: activists plugging away, on the ground, for years. Photograph: Mark Pinder/The GuardianSurely the next step is obvious, and not just between the Lib Dems and Change UK.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 05:02 UTC