Election results
I certainly didn’t stay up to watch the results come in but I did glance at the exit polls before going to bed. They suggested that the Liberal Democrats were likely to win seats where they were second to the Conservatives, especially those which they lost in 2015. That’s exactly what has happened here. Annette Brooke was our Lib Dem MP for fourteen years until she retired and was made a dame. In 2015, the Conservative candidate won the seat. Now, he’s out and the Lib Dems are back. This is not at all surprising; it’s part of a long, long tradition of Liberalism (sic) in the South West of England.