Looking at the three MPs elected in brent, I see that there seems to be an important difference between the Labour ones and Sarah Teather. Both Barry Gardiner and Glenda Jackson managed to bring victory to Labour Council candidates standing on the same day. Sarah Teather did not.
Why is that? I can think of two possible explanations. One is that the Liberal Democrats do not have an image as a party in the same way as the Labour Party does. People who voted for Barry or Glenda saw them as being on the same team as the Council candidates, so the Council candidates got some of the reflected glory or the MPs. Sarah Teather image has always been more about promoting Sarah Teather as a person.
Alternatively, it might be a deliberate choice by Sarah Teather. Whereas Barry and Glenda appeared alongside their party colleagues, reference to the Liberal Democrat councillors in Teather's literature was extremely muted. Probably she didn't want to be tarnished by their record in control of the Council. The end result was probabl;y that they ended up working hard to get votes for her, whilst she avoided supporting them beyond the minimum.
No woman hath greater love than this: that she should lay down her friends for her life.
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