Who is standing in seats the Lib Dems previously held?
A batch of candidates have now been selected in seats formerly held by the party as part of the Liberal Democrat preparations for a possible 2016 general election. … Read the full post »
Mike Thornton won the Eastleigh by-election for the Liberal Democrats in 2013. The by-election had been caused by the resignation of former Cabinet member Chris Huhne following a conviction.
Mike Thornton was then a Member of Parliament for two years, until being defeated in the 2015 general election.
A batch of candidates have now been selected in seats formerly held by the party as part of the Liberal Democrat preparations for a possible 2016 general election. … Read the full post »
Read Liberal Democrat Newswire #80’s post-mortem on the 2016 elections. … Read the full post »
See the latest running tallies of which (ex) MPs are backing which candidate in the Liberal Democrat leadership race. … Read the full post »
You need to give people a reason to click through. The latest email from the candidates doesn’t rise to the challenge. … Read the full post »
Basically, if you’re in Glasgow and Norman Lamb isn’t in the room, the chances are you’ve got to the wrong venue by mistake. … Read the full post »
What you do need is a desire to make an event a success and a genuine personal interest in getting previous or possible attendees to come this time round. Have that, and you’ll get them coming even if your technology is a simple set of personally composed emails. Don’t have that, and even the flashiest technology won’t rescue you. … Read the full post »
Ahead of both the 2005 and 2015 general elections there was a key Liberal Democrat Parliamentary by-election win which massively altered the political atmosphere. … Read the full post »
Back for its fifth year is my Liberal Democrat conference fringe meeting league table, showing how many fringes each MP will be speaking at. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #32 looks at who the winners in the Liberal Democrats are from Mike Thornton’s Eastleigh by-election success. … Read the full post »
Another day, another dodged hustings for Conservative candidate Maria Hutchings. … Read the full post »