One of the highlights of Brighton is that it’s got a great running track. You just poodle out to the promenade – chunter westwards for (in my case) 2.5 k and then turn round and go back. Job done. The ...

Thanks to the wonder of Traveline.info and an ingenious chain of five buses, I travelled to Brighton (and will travel back) free on my senior bus pass (Thank you - I know, it’s so hard to imagine that ...

Paul Walter wrote about the Temporary accommodation debate in his diary earlier It was a great and sobering debate. I just wanted to highlight two things that Lib Dems have done. Prue Bray spoke about ...

Lib Dems desperately want a message that cuts through. Something that lifts our standing in the polls with the same gravity-defying ease as we've seen Reform and the Greens achieve. But I'm afraid ...

Donald Trump has undermined history’s most successful defence alliance. He is engaged in an all-out trade war with America’s closest neighbour and ally. He is threatening to take control of the ...

I'm feeling quite sad this morning. I'm mot able to be at Conference this year as my husband and I get to grips with our new normal following a life-changing diagnosis a couple of months ago. I'm ...

As the Liberal Democrats gather in Brighton, some of the discussion will focus on how to build a stronger, more productive and increasingly inclusive economy. The Director General of the British ...

The failures are plain to see. Rivers are treated as drains. Homes are left exposed to floods and heat. Public services are forced to pay tomorrow for damage that should have been prevented today.

There's a moment every candidate remembers. Not the selection meeting, not the count on election night but the moment before when someone else believed in you, when someone asked you to stand. For ...

The housing crisis in London needs little introduction. One in 50 Londoners are homeless and living in temporary accommodation organised by their local borough. More than 336,000 households languish ...

None of us who remember the terrible time local government endured in the 1980s as budgets were sliced and powers reduced can be unhappy to see greater powers given to local government now. In the 198 ...

The brutal killing of Ann Widdecombe earlier this year has given us all cause to pause about the state of our politics. We do not yet know why she was killed, and it would be wrong to speculate. But ...