Alex Cole-Hamilton: “It won’t withstand first contact with reality and I look forward to you being able to chase us around wherever you are.”

There is no Venn diagram where our council group's values could intersect with those of Reform. I just cannot see circumstances where that would happen.

And if they did, I would find it deplorable, and I would absolutely condemn it to the rafters.

I worry that their continued refusal to do so will only cause more problems for the institutions they are abandoning, and in the most serious cases, that could result in tragedy.

Lib Dems are ready. All of the MRP polls say that we're sitting pretty on 72 seats and could gain handsomely from that, and we don't fear elections. We love them.