After catastrophes of Johnson, Brexit, Corbyn have been digested, next big story will be collapse of Lib Dems. Last year they were being talked of as next official opposition party. It now seems as though they’ll end up with seven fewer MPs than at the end of the last parliament.
Lib Dem problems pre-date Swinson. Still great anger about coalition, tuition fees and lack of contrition. It’s however fair to say Swinson made a lot of missteps very fast, spent far too much energy attacking Labour and was hugely arrogant saying she could be PM.
Perhaps the Lib Dems’ failure was best summed up by the ‘Swinson’s Lib Dems’ bus. That repeated the basic error of Theresa May in 2017: namely, if you’re going to build a presidential-style campaign, make sure your presidential-style candidate is an electoral asset.
