WHAT THE PAPERS SAY (Stone Liberal Democrats)

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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

May 8, 2007 3:23 PM

Now that the results are all in, here is a small collection of comments collected from the columns of the broadsheets over the last few days

"Labour did not do well anywhere. Its 27% of the vote was a damning indictment of the party in power." The Independent - 5th May (Editorial)

"The Liberal Party has won more council seats than Labour and has again performed better than the opinions polls predicted." The Times - 5th May (Peter Riddell)

"The Conservatives went to enormous efforts to assert that there had been a breakthrough in the north but few Tory insiders could really contend that their party is in robust a condition in the north west, north east and Yorkshire/Humberside as they would care for." The Times - 5th May (Tim Harnes)

"This will not be a year to remember from a Tory point of view. Not only did their share of the vote not increase but they failed to make any substantial inroads in most of northern England." The Daily Telegraph - 5th May (Anthony King)

"Not only was the average increase in the Tory vote across England as a whole minuscule, it failed to provide any evidence that the party is making particular progress outside its southern heartlands." The Sunday Telegraph - 6th May (John Curtice)