Read about the former Liberal Democrat MP and party leader, Menzies Campbell – more usually known as Ming Campbell.
He was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2006 (succeeding Charles Kennedy) until 2007.
Andrew Adonis’s account of the days after the public voted in a hung Parliament in 2010 have already received a rightful savaging by Andrew Stunell. … Read the full post »
In theory, the launch of Liberal Left is something I should welcome as I’ve always thought that more and stronger party bodies make for a healthy party. … Read the full post »
Nice chap, well intentioned, successfully implementing internal party reforms and mostly getting coverage not for his ideas on the future of the country but for questions over the future of his leadership. … Read the full post »
I’ve been taking a look at the details of how Liberal Democrat MPs have been behaving in the House of Commons. … Read the full post »
Many book titles reveal little about what their book contains, either providing but a banal name for its contents or a clever, clever name which obscures rather than reveals. However, The Clegg Coup – Britain’s First Coalition Government Since Lloyd George by Jasper Gerard has a title which is revealing in two aspects. First, the … Read the full post »
Two immediate ways you can support the campaign for House of Lords reform are… … Read the full post »
One of the speakers in the Lords reform debate at Liberal Democrat conference was former party leader Ming Campbell, who not only backed the plans for elections to a reformed upper house but also directly addressed the Lib Dem peers who have been talking of opposing the introduction of elections. … Read the full post »
Saturday at Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham was the scene for two party rebellions to surface – one opposed by the party leadership and one likely to bring the leadership benefits. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat MP and member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Ming Campbell has been commenting on the revelations about the Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi case. … Read the full post »
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 »