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Ed Davey: ‘Tactical voting can lock Tories out of power for a generation’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Lib Dem leader says people lending their votes to rival parties could shut the door on Conservatives at Westminster for years to come

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not on the list, but Andy Burnham was Labour's election campaign coordinator at the time and played the critical role in getting Labour's party machinery to ignore the referendum (which is what allowed all these Labour MPs to freely campaign for FPTP).

So I've been very sceptical about his Damascene conversion to electoral reform now that he's in a job that has no influence over the matter...