Who will be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor?
Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. … Read the full post »
Read about former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Öpik. He was elected to represent Montgomeryshire in 1997, and held the seat until being defeated at the 2010 general election.
He was leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats 2001-2007.
Lembit Öpik also twice ran to be Liberal Democrat Party President, in 2004 and 2008. He was unsuccessful both times.
He was expelled from the party in 2021 after doing a ‘how to beat the Lib Dems’ session for the Conservative Party.
Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. … Read the full post »
Contradictory news from Facebook about the state of Lembit Opik’s campaign to become the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor. … Read the full post »
Lembit Opik’s plans to run as the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor have been widely trailed for some time. … Read the full post »
Today’s Independent runs quotes from Sandra Gidley, Lembit Opik, Bob Russell and myself alongside their latest opinion poll report. … 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 »
Lembit Opik is interested in becoming Mayor of London, while The Guardian has a round-up of comments from backbenchers about the Budget. … Read the full post »
Praise for Lembit Opik’s role in Britain’s rural communities comes with Country Life’s list of 100 most influential people. … Read the full post »
From Lembit Opik’s Daily Sport column, surely the most unlikely regular gig for a Liberal Democrat, comes this on internet piracy. … Read the full post »
Carl Minns is the Liberal Democrat leader of Hull City Council. Lib Dem Voice has quizzed him about why he’s in politics, what he’s achieved and how being a Liberal Democrat means he does things differently from other parties. … Read the full post »
Yesterday Progressive London held a day-long conference in, appropriately enough, London. It wasn’t that progressive, though – at least if you don’t think progressive means Labour and no-one else. … Read the full post »