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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image by Tasos Lekkas from Pixabay. Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – Rob Ford and Chris Butler have new research out ...