Only one more woman is likely to win a seat for the Liberal Democrats at the next election, a new report by the Fawcett Society says today.

The study comes with the party struggling in the polls.

One source told the Times: "There is frustration among activists, not with Charles (Kennedy) but with us over why we are not in the picture. They see it as very much linked to Howard, but they cannot understand why we seem to have disappeared."