No easy route to coalition – Lib Dem group leaderpublished at 21:20 BST 8 May
21:20 BST 8 May
Elizabeth Glinka
Political Editor, West Midlands
More now from Birmingham Lib Dem group leader Roger Harmer, who told us his party would not work with Reform.
Given that there is no overall control of the authority, he said his party would “work to establish a stable administration, however that is done”.
“But obviously there is going to be a lot of discussions because there’s going to be no easy way of doing it,” he said.
On the possibility of the Conservatives entering a coalition, he said: “I don’t think so, partly because they campaigned very hard on ‘vote for us to stop Reform’ so it would look very odd.
“But secondly they ain’t got the numbers between them.”
The possibility of a rainbow coalition, I put to him?
“Possibly, possibly, quite a wide rainbow I think at this point.”