Jo Grimond was leader of the Liberal Party 1956-1967, and also briefly returned as interim in 1976 during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal.
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 »
Breaking news. Nearly. Jo Grimond is no longer leader of the Liberal Party. … Read the full post »
Read how the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth went, including Tim Farron’s closing speech in full. … Read the full post »