NEWSWEEK
http://europe.newsweek.com/brexit-richmond-park-election-lib-dems-zac-goldsmith-tim-farron-theresa-may-514139
Rob Ford, a professor of politics at Manchester University, points out that the party has been seizing such opportunities for decades: “The Lib Dems down the ages have won on extraordinary swings against both Conservative and Labour by being a conduit for that kind of discontent [with the government],” he says; the Lib Dem by-election machine is formidable. The party has already mobilized leafleters in the constituency on Wednesday and Thursday, members are being bombarded with calls from phone banks, a full campaign team is in place and an email was sent out to the party faithful on Wednesday called for “Momentum, momentum, and momentum.”