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The Middle East has been called Byzantine, a snake pit and a political cesspit. It is a land where there are said to be no national interests, only interests. Where today’s enemy is tomorrow’s ...
This week saw 4 by-elections with 3 Liberal Democrat candidates – an improvement on last time these wards were up for election. These were two Labour defences, with one each defended by the ...
Registration has now opened for the Autumn Federal Conference which will be held in Bournemouth from 20th to 23rd September. As usual Early Bird registration rates are available until 12th June. You ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, the leader of the Liberal party, Jo Grimond, believed our long-term aim should be to supplant the Labour party as the main party of the left in Britain. Over half a century ...
It’s time to fact facts- the UK’s food system is broken, and the food industry is to blame. In addition to failures by successive governments over the last 30 years to reduce obesity rates, get a grip ...
Councillor Dylan Tippetts (left) with Stuart Bonar, Chair of Plymouth Liberal Democrats Plymouth City Council has been ...
Nigel Farage can congratulate himself. His party did well in recent local elections; but so did the Liberal Democrats and ...
Liberal Democrat MPs forced a vote on an amendment which would have allowed asylum seekers to work if they had been waiting on their decision for more than three months. Of course Labour, Tories and ...
This is the text of a speech I delivered at a demonstration in London on 11 May 2025 organised by ‘We Democracy’. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the ...
Gender inequity is pervasive in healthcare. Between stigma, delayed and incorrect diagnoses, gender bias, not being taken ...
Tessa Munt MP has organised a letter from all 72 LibDem MPs to Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social ...
Liberals will have followed the papal Conclave with mixed feelings.  Liberalism was forged in opposition to state power and state churches, their enforced orthodoxy and suppression of dissent.  On the ...