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Electoral advice the Lib Dems should heed | Letters
KATE MACINTOSH advocates negotiating on proportional representation, while STEPHEN DORRIL suggests they could lead the way on rejoining the EU and ALEX GALLAGHER warns that people have not forgot...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/29/electoral-advice-the-lib-dems-should-heed
Labour and Tories, beware: endlessly shifting right won't save the country | Andy Beckett
Self-styled ‘realists’ of both parties underestimate the depth of voters’ disillusionment with the status quo This autumn, more than ever, British politics is a waiting game. Waiting for ...
Suella Braverman criticised by Labour over ‘deeply divisive’ migration speech – as it happened
Home secretary argued that ‘uncontrolled’ migration poses ‘existential challenge for institutions of the west’ The Sun is carrying a story today saying Rishi Sunak’s “decision to s...
The Guardian view on the Liberal Democrats: a strategy to help oust the Tories | Editorial
Casting the Lib Dems as the party of the NHS is bold but credible – given a Liberal can claim to have invented it Sir Ed Davey did not pull his punches on Tuesday as he wrapped up the Liberal...
Michael Steed obituary
Liberal party activist and psephologist who provided statistics for David Butler’s general election guides Michael Steed, who has died aged 83, was one of the pioneers of psephology who worked...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/michael-steed-obituary
Ed Davey pledges to guarantee cancer patients treatment within two months – video
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, pledged to give a legal guarantee to cancer patients that they could expect treatment within two months. In a speech that recalled the deaths of his...
Not-so-cuddly Lib Dems laser focused on target list of seats
Streamlined party under Ed Davey will concentrate its finite resources on a number of key, mainly Tory, constituencies at the next election UK politics live – latest news updates Asked to su...
Ed Davey pledges legal guarantee on cancer waiting times
Lib Dem leader closes party conference with speech reinforcing party’s focus on the NHS UK politics live – latest updates Ed Davey has closed the Liberal Democrats’ conference with a ple...
Lib Dems members rebuff leadership with vote to keep housebuilding targets
Overwhelming conference vote defies Ed Davey strategy of reshaping policy to court wavering Tory voters Liberal Democrat members have handed a very public rebuke to Ed Davey before his key spee...
HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened
Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link Around 20,000 university workers are out on strike this week...
Lib Dems rule out taxing rich in effort to woo Tory voters
Lib Dem leader says party will target Conservative voters and use energy firms’ profits and banks’ tax breaks to fund NHS Ed Davey has ruled out the Liberal Democrats seeking tax rises on e...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/25/lib-dems-tax-ed-davey-tory-voters-nhs
Liberal Democrats plan to focus election campaign on ultra-local issues
Approach mirrors recent byelection successes but has some members at conference expressing concern The Liberal Democrats plan to rigidly focus their election campaign on ultra-local efforts in ...
Shapps says ‘outside reality’ not to reconsider HS2 as ...nnot make decision without more information – as it happened
Grant Shapps says Rishi Sunak ‘prepared to take difficult long-term decision’ when asked about future of HS2 rail project. This live blog is closed In Manchester, the first buses to be brou...
Britain’s political debate is lacking bold, radical policies. This is your moment, Lib Dems | Max von Thun
Ed Davey should go big on Europe, the economy and the environment at the party conference this week • Max von Thun was a political adviser to the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019 After m...
Before we get to the election, Lib Dems need to raise their sights and up their game | Andrew Rawnsley
They pulled off some spectacular byelection victories over the Tories, but their poll rating is consistently underwhelming If I remember correctly, the Lib Dem logo is supposed to represent the ...
Lib Dems to attack Tories on NHS and pensions triple lock, Ed Davey says
The leader says his party is focusing on the NHS and protecting pensions to woo Conservatives in rural heartlands The Liberal Democrats are planning to open two fronts against the Conservatives...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/24/taunton-voters-rishi-sunak-net-zero-u-turn
‘This is just a Tory line – they don’t care about us�...aunton’s voters refuse to buy into Sunak’s net zero U-turn
Many in the Somerset town did not believe the PM’s claims he dumped his net zero pledges to help struggling families Emergency worker Alice Bowen pauses for a moment in the golden autumnal su...
Coogan and Vorderman back tactical voting calls at Lib Dem conference
Celebrities lend their voices to ‘kick the Tories out’ as the party gathers in Bournemouth for the first time in three years The Liberal Democrats have kicked off their annual conference w...
Lib Dems would double shared parental pay and increase leave
Munira Wilson told party’s conference many men could not afford to spend time with their babies The Liberal Democrats have said they would double statutory shared parental pay (ShPP) and exte...
Cameron and Clegg considered audacious electoral pact in 2015
Deal would have seen Tories withdraw candidates in Lib Dem seats and vice versa, new book reveals The decision by the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with the Conservatives in 2010 torp...