'This election is not going to plan.' The Lib Dems feel the big squeeze | Andrew Rawnsley

In the final furlong of the campaign, they will pitch themselves as the Boris-blockers You don't have to be a masochist to be a Liberal Democrat, but it helps. If they are having a painful campaign, at least it is a torture that they are accustomed to. The Lib Dems have not had a successful campaign since 2010, when Cleggmania briefly infected parts of the nation before turning into Cleggphobia soon after they went into coalition with the Conservatives. They got slaughtered in 2015, in part beca...