With just eight MPs (the same number as the DUP), the greatest struggle that senior Liberal Democrats say they face is that of relevancy.
At the start of his leadership in July 2015, Tim Farron swiftly positioned his party to the left of Labour. But the election of Jeremy Corbyn exploded this strategy. Short of staging a military insurrection against Buckingham Palace, there is no territory to the left of Labour to claim.
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