Whilst those in the media world and the Westminster bubble speculate about the future of our party leader, Ed Davey, Ed focused on what matters most – a plan to end the squeeze on middle-income ...

Britain should be proud, but never afraid of the stranger More than 50 years ago, my grandparents, mother and aunts came to Britain as refugees from Cyprus. They arrived in London with just £20. My ...

The past week has been marked by plenty of people asking what I made of Conference. My general answer has been that it was OK, but we still need to feel from our most prominent representatives that ...

There are any number of slogans linked to the Palestine / Israel conflict that mean different things to different people. Accordingly we must be incredibly careful in how we speak. Our words can have ...

I’ve just about emerged from the mayhem of Brighton — and I’m most definitely ready for a break! But now I’ve had a chance to ...

You can’t elect a community champion if you don’t have a community. We do well where community already exists. We struggle exactly where it’s disappeared. That’s a hard electoral truth. But that’s not ...

Many of our readers will be very sad to see that Christine Jardine MP will not fight the next election. In a statement tongiht she said: “I have written to my local party to let them know I shall not ...

At conference this weekend, there was a rare – and welcome – moment of controversy in the hall. During Ed Davey’s Q&A, journalist Carolyn Quinn asked for a show of hands.  Should the Liberal Democrats ...

Six principal authority by-elections took place across England on Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September. The Conservatives were defending two seats (in South Staffordshire and Berkshire), Labour ...

Suella Braverman’s recent statement on making hymn singing mandatory in English schools shows just how out of touch Reform is with modern British society. Reform UK's proposed ...

Aspects of the recent Party conference in Brighton raise an important question in my mind: what has happened to democratic policy-making in the Liberal Democrats? When Nick Clegg was leader, he ...

On Tuesday, 22 September, Tim Farron MP delivered a speech at our 2026 Autumn Conference during the F36 policy motion, ...