Many congratulations to new councillor, Charlie Clinton. The outgoing councillor is Anton Georgiou, whose original victory has been much cited as an example to follow and who I interviewed on my ...

Before my plans rather changed for what to do after my term as Lib Dem President ends on 31 December, I had been contemplating writing a new book, looking at the apparent paradox between the long-term ...

– indicates that party didn’t feature in the polling questions separate from ‘Others’ or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous comparable poll (i.e. by ...

The combined Agenda & Directory for the Lib Dem Federal Spring Conference coming up in Harrogate is now out. It includes details of all the keynote speeches, debates and more. Also available is the ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. For more recent years, it includes party leader and government ratings. It ...

Here’s my coverage of all the local council by-election results in Britain, updated each week as the results come in. I include all principal authority by-elections (i.e. borough, district, county and ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw Paula Surridge return to the show, talking about the impact of political values and of perceived competence on recent general elections. We got into ...

Read about the selections of Liberal Democrat election candidates. You can sign up for email alerts when new posts appear by filling in the form at the bottom of each of the posts. If you know of ...

Given the popularity of making public my database of voting intention opinion polls, I’ve now also published my database of the annual local election results in Great Britain (excluding Northern ...

An email from Liberal Democrat HQ brings the news: The Federal Policy Committee is seeking applications from party members who wish to serve on two new policy working groups. This is a real ...