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SUMMARY:Election 2010 in historical perspective
DESCRIPTION:The 2010 election must rank as one of the strangest in the hist
 ory of the Liberal Democrats or its predecessor parties. Britain&rsquo\;s 
 first-ever television debates saw the party catapulted into the front rank
  of news coverage. Yet after successive opinion polls regularly showed the
  Lib Dems in at least second place\, the result was a crashing disappointm
 ent\; although the party gained almost a million votes\, the vagaries of t
 he first-past-the-post electoral system meant that it lost a net five seat
 s.&nbsp\;Yet in losing\, the party won. The outcome of the election - a hu
 ng parliament - at last gave the Liberal Democrats a chance of power\, and
  led to Britain&rsquo\;s first coalition government for sixty-five years.D
 iscuss the election campaign and its outcome with John Curtice (Professor 
 of Politics\, Strathclyde University)\, Dennis Kavanagh (author\, &#39\;Th
 e British General Election of 2010&#39\;) and James Gurling (Chair\, Liber
 al Democrat Campaigns &amp\; Communications Committee).
LOCATION:Grace Suite 3\, Hilton Hotel\, Liverpool
URL:https://www.flocktogether.org.uk/event/6755
CATEGORIES:MEETING,CONFERENCE FRINGE MEETING
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