After being doorstepped by a Green canvasser, I know what voters must do to keep out Reform | Zoe Williams

The 7 May elections in Great Britain promise to be a rout for Labour and the Tories. If you need to vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s party, make sure you trust your neighbours

If there’s one thing I love more than being canvassed at local election time, it’s being canvassed when I’m at someone else’s house. I promise those people the earth. Sure, my friend whose house it is will definitely vote Lib Dem, I tell them; I once saw him make a chicken salad to take on a protest march.

When a Green campaigner came to my sister’s front door, I confidently promised her a hard yes from both the adult kids, a definitely-maybe from my brother-in-law and the shoo-in of my sister. Given that there are three councillors in her ward, that was between nine and 12 more votes than the Greens had had a second before.