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 ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts sees Peter Kellner join me to discuss a new report on what is going wrong with our politics, and the solutions. No surprise then that our conversation ...

– 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 ...

A local press release brings the news: Councillor Steve Ashton (Crewkerne) has joined the Liberal Democrat group at Somerset Council. Councillor Ashton was elected as a Conservative in 2022 and has ...

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 ...

Six seats, across five wards, were up in the principal authority council by-elections this week. First off, a by-election in Clive Jones‘s constituency which the Lib Dems needed to win in order to ...

Labour’s Angela Rayner calls cancelling elections, “a fast-track ticket to drive real change” but Ed Davey rightly calls it, “a disgraceful stitch-up between Labour and the Conservatives. The Liberal ...

Which means it’s time for this song, courtesy of the ever excellent John Finnemore Souvenir Programme: Lyrics by John Finnemore, music written and played by Susannah Pearse, performed by Simon Kane, ...