The guidance under lockdown restrictions has prohibited door-to-door leafleting as political parties campaign for the May elections. But these rules – which were applied both during the second lockdown in November and the current lockdown – were broken as leaflets and a ‘WatfordWide News’ tabloid-styled newsletter from the Liberal Democrats continued distribution to Watford residents. With these restrictions imposed, both Watford Labour and the Watford Conservative Association decided to abide by these rules and halt distributions of any campaigning leaflets. Leading Liberal Democrat councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst however has defended the latest run of newsletters, pointing to the legal advice the national Liberal Democrats party received – which classes leafleting as a “voluntary service” that cannot “reasonably be undertaken from home” and therefore exempt.