A graph created by the BBC, based on figures by the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies, undermines the claims by the Tory govermnment that they are adequately funding the NHS.
Zac Goldsmith got trounced last night in the Richmond by-election by the Lib Dems in a contest that was largely seen as a referendum on Tory Brexit plans.
At Lib Dem conference today, Nick Clegg made an excellent point about Brexit and Theresa May’s claims about it. Yes, we know, it’s unusual, but hear us out.
With suspended Labour MP Simon Danczuk now reported to police over expense claims, perhaps he has reflected — when not attending to his unfolding mid-life crisis — on the irony of sending fancy dress campaigners to target a former Lib Dem opponent who claimed for a 40p banana.
A former Liberal Democrat MP, who was turfed out by voters last May, has given a rant an extraordinarily honest summary of why he thinks the party was decimated at the general election.
The Lib Dems have certainly come a long way since their by-election heyday of the late nineties and early noughties, apparently struggling to work out where the poll is to take place — let alone winning it.
Defenestrated Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone Has come over all Al Gore — seeming to claim that she invented the concept of gay marriage.
Pensions expert turned Tory peer and minister Ros Altmann was the subject of much amusement last week, with the news of her expulsion as a member of both Labour and Lib Dems, which Altmann had joined — she claims — in order to “keep in touch with what each party was doing”.
The Lib Dem leadership campaign looks to be getting nasty — with attempts to drag right-winger Norman Lamb into the Grevile Janner ‘sex abuse’ scandal.
Lib Dem Voice gets to grips with the big issues facing their party:
