In this year’s local elections, we had a great showing. The Liberal Democrats gained 163 councillors, majority control of three county councils and now lead in five hung councils. The ...

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

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 ...

Voters are deeply concerned about the rapid & continuing demographic changes in their communities. Gone are the days when politicians can espouse the economic benefits of immigration when we have ...

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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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 ...

Local elections can be a bit unreliable as regards how the electorate are inclined to vote. Poor turnouts, local factors etc can all skew a result. The Welsh Senedd May next year will be a far ...

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.

I’m challenging myself with a prediction of how the local elections will pan out. Admittedly, I don’t quite have the time or energy to go through each ward of each council up for election in ...

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 ...

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 ...