As usual, the Liberal Democrats are not getting the coverage we deserve for some pretty spectacular election results. The BBC spent most of its coverage talking up Reform, Lewis Goodall on the ...

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Of the 2024 Labour GE voters intending to switch for today’s locals, 28% intend to vote Lib Dem, compared to 26% for Reform and just 12% Green, so while concentrating on One Nation Tories may ...

Ed Davey sounded a confident note with his close of poll statement: We are expecting to see big gains against the Conservatives in their former Middle England heartlands. Last year the Liberal ...

The first 100 days of the Trump Administration has been among the most consequential in American history. Consequential does not necessarily mean good. In this case, it means very, very bad.

Council tax certainly needs reform given its current unfairness, but this needs to be considered alongside a major rebalancing of tax away from central government towards local government. Sam ...

How do we apply Liberalism in day-to-day politics? A thoughtful new book, When We Speak of Freedom, edited by Paul Hindley and Benjamin Wood, deserves more discussion here.The subtitle is ...

We have much to be pleased about. As I write Lib Dems have 327 Council places, up 131 on the previous results in those seats. The big story, of course, is that Reform has gained 575 while the ...

Due to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May’s elections is our best showing since May 2009. That is, the proportion of seats we are contesting this time, compared ...

If you do nothing else in the next couple of days, please try and help Mike Ross become Mayor in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ed Davey has done his bit by visiting the Beats Bus in Hull ...

Embed from Getty Images Mark Carney and the Canadian Liberals have won an extraordinary victory which seemed impossible a few months ago. In hispowerful victory speech in English and French, he ...