The Liberal Song, with Jo Grimond on the B-side
In 1964, the National League of Young Liberals (the party’s then youth wing) released The Liberal Song, sung by Brian Lee. … Read the full post »
Jo Grimond was leader of the Liberal Party 1956-1967, and also briefly returned as interim in 1976 during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal.
In 1964, the National League of Young Liberals (the party’s then youth wing) released The Liberal Song, sung by Brian Lee. … Read the full post »
Lady Louise Glen-Coats was a significant female Liberal in the first half of the twentieth century but, lacking a famous surname, has fallen into the cracks of history. … Read the full post »
I’ve tried something a little different for this episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts: taking a look at the career of a previous party leader to see the lessons for the current Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the second, and still possibly last, edition of a new political podcast featuring former Lib Dem Voice editor Stephen Tall and, er…, former Lib Dem Voice editor Mark Pack. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #114 came out last week with a range of contributions from guests on topics as varied as Love Island, Jo Grimond and international trade. … Read the full post »
Desmond, later Lord, Banks was one of the central figures in keeping the Liberal Party going after the Second World War. He became a life peer in 1974. … Read the full post »
Pratap (later Lord) Chitnis was the post-war Liberal Party’s first grassroots campaigning mastermind. … Read the full post »
There are many moderate Labour figures who share the Lib Dem vision of a positive alternative to this divisive Brexit government. … Read the full post »
Peter Sloman’s The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 comes with as hefty a price tag as its weight of scholarly research. … Read the full post »
Michael Meadowcroft in The Guardian has an answer to that, of sorts, featuring Jo Grimond. … Read the full post »