Read about former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil (2001-2015) and Cabinet minister David Laws.
Many book titles reveal little about what their book contains, either providing but a banal name for its contents or a clever, clever name which obscures rather than reveals. However, The Clegg Coup – Britain’s First Coalition Government Since Lloyd George by Jasper Gerard has a title which is revealing in two aspects. First, the … Read the full post »
As Tim Leunig pointed out last week, housing plays an important role in most people’s concept of social mobility. But what to do about it? … Read the full post »
The pre-publication newspaper serialisation of Chris Bower’s biography of Nick Clegg used extracts which covered the Deputy Prime Minister’s early life. … Read the full post »
More economically competent than Labour, fairer than the Conservatives – that’s the Lib Dem message. … Read the full post »
The police have returned the paperwork related to David Laws’s expenses – which suggests that they have not found anything in it worthy of legal action. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #8 covers the NHS, Lords reform, Paddy Ashdown and more. … Read the full post »
Chatting recently to a Liberal Democrat colleague, I fear we sounded like a second-rate version of the Monty Python four Yorkshiremen sketch. … Read the full post »
The Commissioner concluded: “I have no evidence that Mr. Laws made his claims with the intention of benefiting himself or his partner”. … Read the full post »
The advanced leaking of a supposedly highly confidential Parliamentary report is just the sort of tip that political journalists love. … Read the full post »
Over the last few months, I’ve read (and mostly reviewed on this site) all the books I’ve found published so far about the 2010 general election… … Read the full post »