“We can change the system, we can give people real hope” – Ed Davey’s speech
Take a watch of Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s speech to our York spring conference, with a bonus of the party awards presentation first. … Read the full post »
Rishi Sunak
Read all my posts featuring Rishi Sunak, who became Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister at the second attempt in 2022. He replaced Liz Truss, the shortest-serving PM.
Turning our policies into practical action (LDN #178)
Liberal Democrat Newswire #178 came out last week, including news on Lib Dem councils building houses, a new move to ban conversion therapy and how party support varies by supermarket. … Read the full post »
PODCAST: A year of Rishi Sunak and lessons from the Mid Bedfordshire by-election
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another special with the Lib Dem Pod team. We talked about a year of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister and lessons from the Mid Bedfordshire by-election. … Read the full post »
Full slate of Lib Dem candidates and up into second in Rishi Sunak’s constituency
Five principal authority council by -elections this week, and a full set of Liberal Democrat candidates to go with that. … Read the full post »
Ed Davey closes Lib Dem conference with call for 2 month cancer treatment guarantee
Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth closed with the traditional trio of party awards, an appeal and then the keynote speech from the party leader. Among the many brilliant winners I had the pleasure of giving awards out to was one of our London Assembly members, Caroline Pidgeon: Then it was time for a Christmas-themed (!) … Read the full post »
Values or the economy – what’s driving our politics? Podcast with Paula Surridge
Never Mind The Bar Charts again features Paula Surridge, who since last time has been promoted to Professor – congratulations! … Read the full post »
Nadine Dorries says she’s sent her resignation letter
After previously saying she’d resigned with “immediate” effect but, er…., not going, this time Nadine Dorries says she’s sent off a resignation letter. … Read the full post »
Can Sunak’s right-wing war on ‘woke’, migrants and the environment save the Tories?
Mediocre fiction is full of caricatured villains whose selfishness means they don’t care about people who aren’t like them and whose myopia mean they are happy to damn the future. … Read the full post »
The Lib Dems deserve to win: The Guardian
An editorial in The Guardian about this week’s Parliamentary by-elections says… … Read the full post »
Rishi Sunak’s (latest) mistake (LDN #174)
Liberal Democrat Newswire #174 looks at how the Prime Minister is continuing to blunder and the increasingly positive prospects for the Lib Dems. … Read the full post »