Tuition fees: which way will MPs vote on Thursday?
Today saw a weird piece of media face with an impostor conning several news outlets into reporting that Edinburgh West MP Mike Crockart was going to resign. … Read the full post »
Read about Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat MP and leader of the party 1999-2006. Greg Hurst has written an excellent biography of Charles Kennedy.
Today saw a weird piece of media face with an impostor conning several news outlets into reporting that Edinburgh West MP Mike Crockart was going to resign. … Read the full post »
The Market Research Society Code of Conduct (to which YouGov subscribes, along with other British political pollsters), states that “researchers shall be … honest”. Its rulings say otherwise. … Read the full post »
“Just heard a rumour that Charles Kennedy will defect to Labour as soon as they find the WMDs in Iraq”. So tweeted Liberal Democrat councillor Nick Barlow over the weekend. … Read the full post »
From Nick Barlow on Twitter, in response to wild suggestions that Charles Kennedy might be about to join Labour… … Read the full post »
Today, The Independent has a quote from me about Nick Clegg’s interview for The Westminster Hour about, amongst other topics, electoral reform. … Read the full post »
Just over 100 days into coalition, it’s becoming clearer how the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party (in the Commons) is shaping up and where dissent is likely to come from. … Read the full post »
The confusion commentators sometimes face when trying to understand the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party is illustrated by Vince Cable. … Read the full post »
“I will only really believe it when I see it in print!” – so read a text message to me from one of the party’s senior campaign strategists after news started spreading about the latest poll. … Read the full post »
“Drunkard”, “useful idiot” and “dickheads” – all terms from one of the 2006 Italian debates between Prodi and Berlusconi. … Read the full post »
Welcome to 30th tweeting Lib Dem MP, thanks to a former party leader: @charles_kennedy. … Read the full post »