A new MRP poll from YouGov has suggested that Sam Collins and the Liberal Democrats are set to win Hitchin & Harpenden should a General Election be held tomorrow.

The poll nationally, as covered by the Mirror, shows 24 'Blue Wall' seats falling to the Lib Dems including Hitchin & Harpenden. 

Hitchin and Harpenden’s Lib Dems have called on Boris Johnson to resign as the damning Sue Gray report is published and the Partygate scandal comes to a head. 

The local Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of “failing the country” and added that while thousands in Hitchin and Harpenden made sacrifices, Boris Johnson’s Number 10 partied. 

Analysis has revealed the top ten Conservative MPs at risk following the Liberal Democrat surge at the local elections.

The “Blue Wall backlash” would see the likes of Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab lose their seats at the next General Election.

We are supporting local residents in their campaign to restore a precious chalk stream meadow in rural Pirton, Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo, which is under threat from housing development by Hertfordshire County Council.

• Former Conservative Councillor and outgoing NFU Deputy President Stuart Roberts becomes member of the Liberal Democrats and will help write the party’s new farming policies

Hitchin and Harpenden’s Liberal Democrats have called on local Conservative MP Bim Afolami to sack Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak following the revelation that both are to be fined over lockdown-breaking parties at Number 10.

The Liberal Democrats are also calling for Parliament to be recalled immediately so MPs can hold a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, following the revelation that both he and Rishi Sunak are to be fined over lockdown-breaking parties at Number 10.

The Liberal Democrats have slammed the Spring Statement as a "massive missed opportunity" to help families in Hitchin and Harpenden.

The party has called for the standard rate of VAT to be reduced from 20% to 17.5% for one year. It comes after the Chancellor's lacklustre Spring Statement failed to adequately protect local families from soaring bills and the Conservatives' worsening cost of living crisis.

Here’s how one local press outlet reported on this week’s by-election results:

‘Lib Dems rout Tories across Hitchin to send message ahead of 2024 General Election following local by-election results’

In Hitchin by-elections called following the sad death of Paul Clark, the Lib Dems have retained both seats with an increased share of the vote.

• Liberal Democrats call for fare freeze as cost of living crisis worsens.

• Annual season ticket for Hitchin and Harpenden commuters into London rises by most in a decade.

• This affects over 1 in 6 workers in Hitchin and Harpenden.