Can Labour kick Nick Clegg out of Sheffield Hallam in May?

Labour could depose Clegg in Sheffield Hallam, but scarce funding, another anti-Clegg vote (the Greens), and Tories voting tactically could save the Deputy Prime Minister.

By Tim Wigmore

(Photo By Nick Clegg could be ousted from his own constituency. Photo: Niklas Halle'n)

A new poll by Survation shows Labour ten points ahead of Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam. Here is our report, originally published on our sister polling site May 2015, on whether the Liberal Democrat leader will lose this May.

Traipsing through sludge on a blustery Monday evening is few people’s idea of fun. Why bother? “The fear of losing by five votes – that’s what drives every candidate on.”