Lib Dems offer alternative to Reform UK and Greens, says Ed Davey

8 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 9

The party gained 153 councillors in England, took control of Stockport and Portsmouth, and won six more Scottish Parliament seats, lifting its Holyrood total to 10.
But Reform blocked Liberal Democrat advances in Hull and Hampshire, while the party also won East and West Surrey and all seats in Sutton and Richmond-upon-Thames.
Davey called it an eighth straight year of net English council gains and the party's best Scottish result in nearly 20 years, though it lost Shetland and still has one Senedd member.

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