At a fringe meeting in Brighton today, the respected psephologist John Curtice, of Stathcylde University, told the party it had the best chance in a generation of gaining office.
The respected psephologist John Curtice has calculated that the Tories could gain 71 seats from Labour without winning a higher share of the vote than in 2001, simply by a swing to the Lib Dems splitting the progressive vote in our marginals.