Read my posts featuring Liberal Democrat activist Pauline Pearce, who achieved national fame for confronting rioters in Hackney.
The May elections are only a few weeks, a couple of dozen leaflet drops and three score candidate tweets away. So LDN #111 takes a look at the Lib Dem prospects, how Brexit may play out in those contests and what we can learn from the candidate numbers. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #108 has a special free extract from a book I contributed to. It’s a what-if political history, looking back at how the 2007 Lib Dem leadership election could have had rather different consequences for the party. … Read the full post »
Local Liberal Democrats have chosen Pauline Pearce as their mayoral candidate for Hackney ahead of next year’s election. … Read the full post »
The results of the Liberal Democrat federal committee elections are now in, and super-thanks to everyone who voted for me, electing me successfully to the Federal Board. … Read the full post »
Duwayne Brooks, who was elected by Liberal Democrat members to be in the seventh slot on the party’s GLA list for next May’s elections, has withdrawn. … Read the full post »
To go with Caroline Pidgeon’s selection as the Lib Dem London Mayor candidate, here are the results out today of the list candidate selections, in order. … Read the full post »
London Liberal Democrat members are voting to select list candidates for next May’s GLA elections but some key information is missing from the ballot. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat members in London will shortly be voting to select (and order) the party’s 11 candidates for the London Assembly list elections … Read the full post »
My first reaction on seeing the Liberal Democrat federal committee election results was one of puzzlement. Surely I couldn’t be reading the results correctly, because those numbers looked much too small to be people’s first preference totals? … Read the full post »
Edition #53 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at the problems with the current Liberal Democrat strategy and how to fix them. You can also read it below and for more on the party’s strategy, see the media appearance I did afterwards. Since #53 came out, the new slogan is creeping out more … Read the full post »