The 2018 local elections are the first in a sequence of local elections in which the Liberal Democrats have the opportunity to start to repair some of the damage they suffered to their councillor base while they were in government.
When these councils were last contested in 2014, the Liberal Democrats lost 310 councillors and lost control of two councils: Kingston-upon-Thames in London and Portsmouth on the south coast. But they held onto the Watford mayoralty, thanks in part to the local popularity of the incumbent Dorothy Thornhill.
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