Bigger stakes, harder choices: general election year (LDN 179)
Liberal Democrat Newswire #179 focuses on the one – or should I say, at least one? – general election likely next year. … Read the full post »
Chris Huhne was a Liberal Democrat MEP and then MP for Eastleigh 2005-13. He stood for the party’s leadership in 2007, losing to Nick Clegg.
A Cabinet minister in the 2010 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Chris Huhne’s political career came to an end after being convicted of perverting the course of justice following a traffic speeding incident.
Liberal Democrat Newswire #179 focuses on the one – or should I say, at least one? – general election likely next year. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #108 has a special free extract from a book I contributed to. It’s a what-if political history, looking back at how the 2007 Lib Dem leadership election could have had rather different consequences for the party. … Read the full post »
That’s the subject of my chapter in the new collection of historical counterfactuals, Prime Minister Corbyn and other things that never happened. … Read the full post »
Norman Lamb pulled off a surprise at the main London leadership hustings in the race to be Liberal Democrat leader when… … Read the full post »
The rules for the official hustings meetings for the 2015 Liberal Democrat leadership contest are prescriptive and traditional. … Read the full post »
The published record of the emails between Vicky Pryce and Isabel Oakeshott show that Vicky Pryce changed her account of events. … Read the full post »
An unusual start to one of these round-ups: a quote from Conservative by-election candidate Maria Hutchings which I agree with. … Read the full post »
The second Eastleigh by-election poll is out today, showing this time the Liberal Democrats ahead of the Conservatives. … Read the full post »
I was on the Daily Politics with Tim Montgomerie being grilled by Andrew Neil about the forthcoming Eastleigh Parliamentary by-election. … Read the full post »
Here’s what I’ve been tweeting or retweeting about Chris Huhne’s decision to plead guilty. … Read the full post »