Lord John Alderdice was leader of the Liberal Democrat sister party in Northern Ireland, The Alliance, 1987-98 and became a peer, taking the Liberal Democrat whip, in 1996.
Rounding off the Southport conference which saw the party adopted a new strategy, Lib Dem leader Vince Cable took a swing at Jeremy Corbyn (a life-long Eurosceptic) for talking about workers but supporting a Brexit which will hit workers. … Read the full post »
Friday 20 January 2017 is the deadline for submissions to Lord Alderdice’s independent inquiry into improving process and culture within the Liberal Democrats with a focus on race and ethnicity. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #86 includes a lesson from the 2005 general election about what happens if you don’t have a core votes strategy. … Read the full post »
The combined Liberal Democrat frontbench team spanning the House of Commons and Lords has been reshuffled a little by party leader Tim Farron. … Read the full post »
During the 2015 Lib Dem leadership contest, both Tim Farron and Norman Lamb backed the idea of a ‘Morrissey 2’ report, a follow up to Helena Morrissey’s report into Liberal Democrat culture and processes which would focus on race and ethnicity in the party. … Read the full post »
Tim Farron has announced his new Shadow Cabinet, which not only is majority-female (just like the electorate) but also… … Read the full post »
Since the general election, the Liberal Democrat team in the House of Lords has become rather more important. … Read the full post »
A news release from Liberal Democrat HQ brings the news of the following four appointments as party committee co-chairs. … Read the full post »
Norman Lamb, moving the Federal Policy Committee report, talks of need for party to come up with strong and distinctive policies for second half of the Parliament. … Read the full post »
It’s not only Liberal Democrat MPs who are gearing up to vote next week. So too are their colleagues in the upper house where the leader of the Lib Dem peers Tom McNally now in government at the Ministry of Justice. … Read the full post »