Britons don’t know what the Liberal Democrats consider the most important issue facing the country. Compared against Labour, Conservative, Green and Reform, the electorate have the poorest recall on ...

Since the results of the 2026 Local Elections, there has rightly been some deep analysis of where we are as a party. Colleagues have argued that we are abandoning the North of England, only focusing ...

The recent elections confirmed what opinion polls have been saying for some time.  Unless something radically changes, we are heading towards a Reform UK government, possibly with Conservative support ...

I was seven years old when I first delivered leaflets for this party on the streets of Yorkshire. Seven years old. Running ...

I’ve been reflecting on the events of 7th May, the election cycle that dominated the entire country, especially Scotland. UK-wide, the political landscape is widely acknowledged to have changed ...

I read Rob Blackie’s post on Tuesday. Well written, but none of this is new. The difference now is that the warning lights are flashing everywhere, especially in London. Let’s tell it straight. The ...

I’ve heard the calls a few times now, “if only we’d fought Gorton and Denton”, or “the local party got screwed over by HQ”, but as someone who was there coordinating the local party’s activity in the ...

Enough has been written by more experienced observers than me to make it worthwhile to rehash the arguments already made about this year’s local election results. It is clear that the overall headline ...

The Liberal Democrats have a growing urban problem and pretending otherwise will only make it worse. Last week’s local ...

There is a speech I keep coming back to. In the run-up to the 2014 European Parliament elections, Charles Kennedy told the party conference something that cut right to the heart of our political ...

Political leadership is about changing the public agenda. Keir Starmer has failed to sway public opinion on major issues. Nigel Farage has been a much more effective political leader, albeit for a ...

The last few years have been extraordinary for Liberal Democrats in local government. We have taken control of councils we hadn’t held in a generation, broken Conservative dominance in places that ...