In other news… Vince upsets Tories, Liverpool to choose mayor, Radcliffe...
Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… Cable sticks by Les Ebdon as his choice of ‘university tsar’ – the Lib Dem business secretary is opening up a rift...
View ArticleLDVideo: Simon Hughes on the Coalition Budget, 50p tax rate and NHS reform bill
Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, was interviewed by the BBC’s Andrew Neil at the weekend on some of the key issues currently facing the party and the Coalition. These included the Lib Dem push...
View ArticleIn other news… Richard Kemp for Liverpool, Kennedy on the UK, defection in...
Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… Richard Kemp to represent Liberal Democrats in Liverpool mayor election in May (Liverpool Echo) ‘He said: “I am...
View ArticleLDVideo Conference Special: the views of Nick Clegg, party members & Simon...
If you’re missing out on the thrills and spills of the Lib Dems’ spring conference in NewcastleGateshead, hopefully these videos will offer you some flavour of proceedings… Nick Clegg to tell Lib Dems:...
View ArticleIn other news… Michael Brown extradited, unpaid party internships, Jo Swinson...
Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past few days… Lib Dem donor Michael Brown to be extradited to UK (BBC News) Convicted fraudster and former Lib Dem donor...
View ArticleSimon Hughes calls for independent inquiry into Jeremy Hunt
As the BBC News reports here, Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes last night called for the independent advisor on the ministerial code to investigate whether the allegations that Conservative culture...
View ArticleWhat I told BBC Radio 5′s Nicky Campbell about Simon Hughes’s call for Jeremy...
As I blogged this morning Simon Hughes last night became the first senior Lib Dem to call for Jeremy Hunt to face an independent inquiry into whether his behaviour broke the ministerial code during...
View ArticleLDVideo: Clegg – we don’t need Hunt inquiry. Hughes – we need Hunt inquiry
Here’s Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg saying that the Leveson Inquiry is the best place for culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to give evidence about his role in the BSkyB takeover bid… (Available on the BBC...
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Ashcroft’s poll of Lib Dem battleground seats: incumbency is alive and well...
Tory peer and pollster Lord Ashcroft has published his latest set of constituency findings. He polled some of the key Lib Dem / Tory and Lib Dem / Labour battlegrounds in the summer – he’s now followed...
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Review: ‘Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s’
Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart The ’80s are suddenly back, at least for the Labour party which has regressed to them. I was two years old when they began, so I recall a fair...
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