Polls close: Voters want an end to this appalling Conservative government

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Responding to polls closing for this year’s local elections, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said: 

“The message across the country today was loud and clear. Voters want an end to this appalling Conservative government.

“People are sick of the Conservative party’s endless infighting, unaffordable mortgages, an NHS in freefall and filthy sewage being pumped into their rivers and seas.

“They want change and they want to see the end of Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party in office. That is why, up and down the country, so many lifelong Conservative voters backed the Liberal Democrats today, because they know Liberal Democrat councillors will never take them for granted and fight for the issues they care about.” 

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