There is also a second cluster of eleven seats where the vote to Remain in the EU surpassed the 50 per cent mark but Liberal Democrats are still up to 20 points behind. Again, only three of these (Cheadle, Cheltenham, and Oxford West and Abingdon) are held by the Conservatives. Another six are held by the SNP while two are held by Labour (Cardiff Central, and Hornsey and Wood Green. <\/p>\n
Yet there is a third cluster of seats where the vote for Remain was around or just below the average and where Liberal Democrats are between 3-18 points behind. They would not require an excessive swing. Worryingly for the Prime Minister these are mainly Conservative seats which turned blue in 2015, like Thornbury and Yate, Colchester, and Sutton and Cheam. <\/p>\n
If Tim Farron can build momentum, his party could break the 20 seat mark and put an (albeit small) dent in Mays majority. Even still, it is not all one way of the nine Lib Dem MPs some like Norman Lamb in Norfolk North are in seats that voted to leave the EU and could be vulnerable to a Conservative challenge. <\/p>\n
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