article_snippet.sent: Stephen Gilbert is defending a majority of just 1,312 in St Austell and Newquay, and Lib Dem insiders today admitted the party is on course to lose at least 20 MPs on May 7.
article_snippet.sent: Opinion polls by YouGov since 2010 show the dramatic collapse in the Lib Dem support,  to barely 8 per cent .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg and the Lib Dems's election strategists have insisted the poor national opinion poll ratings, which have seen the Lib Dems stuck around the 8 per cent mark, are not reflected in the data gathered by canvassers and internal polling.
highlights_snippet.sent: Stephen Gilbert is defending a slim majority of 1,312 in St Austell and Newquay .
  