Jo Grimond was leader of the Liberal Party 1956-1967, and also briefly returned as interim in 1976 during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal.
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 »
Tudor Jones is especially good at chronicling the changing attitudes towards free markets in the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat Party. … Read the full post »
What’s striking is how the Liberal Democrats on the road to 2010 accumulated so many members and voters for whom the very concept of coalition with the Tories was enough to put them off. … Read the full post »