There are 6 principal councils by-elections this week held across England and Scotland. Labour suffered big losses vote share wise but managed to hold 3 out of 4 of their seats, losing one to the SNP.

I wrote in Lib Dem Voice about the need for a governance review of the English Party. I urged consideration of what functions of the State party could be better delivered at a Federal level, recognisi ...

There are 7 principal council by-elections held across England, Scotland, and Wales this week; with a combined of 3 Labour, 2 Lib Dem, 1 Conservative, and 1 Green Party defence. Seats changed ...

Liberal democracy is not the default setting for forms of government.  Autocracy, or dictatorships, are.   Liberal democracies, and the open and liberal societies on which they rest, have to be ...

Christine Jardine was described by Labour MP Nadia Whittome as having “long been ahead of many in this House when it comes to equalities issues, including being outspoken in support of the ...

We need to be careful about how local papers report results where Reform do reasonably well. There was also a town council election in Taunton (Lyngford) which the Liberal Democrats held with ...

Spring Conference will be in Harrogate from 21st to 23rd March. You can now see the agenda here.Policy motions cover: Science, Innovation and Technology Free to be Who You Are The UK’s Response ...

Alison is very diplomatic above. And I completely endorse what she says about our efforts to work as “one party”. But this motion is the very opposite of that. We’ve just seen our most ...

In Part 1, I introduced some ideas about how we beat populism, focusing on immigration. Today, I am going to look at the NHS, the economy and our political system. The NHS is under siege, and the ...

Hats off to Ed Davey for calling for an EU/UK customs union. Last month’s call rightly attracted media attention, and amounts to the first step towards the Lib Dems re-establishing ourselves as ...

We are not a high tax country compared to many others, as the OBR and IFS have been saying for the last couple of years. Conservative propaganda always plays this to people’s feelings and I was ...

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