Liberal Democrats

While Ed Davey faces an uncontested leadership election, a more interesting poll looms next year

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy

The party’s president, Mark Pack, is facing questions as it could lose half a million pounds in a legal row

The Liberal Democrats’ 72-seat success is not just the product of cheesy stunts and a brilliant tactical voting operation – Ed Davey’s own story helped too

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more

What are these pamphlets of political promises actually for – and why do parties with no hope of winning bother writing them?

Just a quarter of people think the UK should be outside the EU - but no party leader is talking about it

The Lib Dem leader has been running a crack campaign – with the Euros approaching, might he recreate a football fan’s famous stunt?

They won’t win the election - but at least they are the adults in the room

He’s not going to become PM, but he’s already taught Starmer and Sunak a lesson

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Richard Holden, Emily Sheffield, Jacob Young and more

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage, Ukip and more

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Andrew Neil, George Galloway and more

The Lib Dem leader says rejoining the European Union is currently off the table

Ed Davey needs to do what Paddy Ashdown would have done – campaign to Rejoin. The Lib Dems’ vote in one-nation Tory constituencies will soar

Owen Jones has got it wrong (again). Hoping for a hung parliament is a self-indulgent waste of time

A new voting system does not mean progressives in perpetual power – if anything it would bolster the far right

Delays on the rail network saw the former Liberal leader's long-delayed farewell party delayed even longer

Ed Davey's family business has been put into liquidation but the likely payout would hardly cover a couple of hours' work for Nick Clegg

A rise in net worth for the Lib Dem leader's consultancy pales in comparison with his predecessor's fortune

The president’s achievements have been underplayed - and they contain lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems

Stung by their 2019 election campaign but keen to shore up their pro-EU convictions, the party will this weekend vote on a detailed roadmap back

TIM WALKER, a one-time parliamentary candidate for the centre party, on how members feel about its former leader, now one of the social network’s senior figures

Boris Johnson’s Tories suffered a humiliating by-election defeat as the Liberal Democrats scored a historic win in Chesham and Amersham. Lib Dem Sarah Green is the country’s newest MP after winning the seat, which had been a Conservative stronghold since its creation in 1974. Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, said the result sent […]

The Liberal Democrats have claimed the Chesham and Amersham by-election is “neck and neck” as voters go to the polls in a by-election for the historically Conservative safe seat. The constituency in Buckinghamshire has been held by the Tories since its creation in 1974, but the Liberal Democrats have insisted it could “go down to […]

The education recovery commissioner has resigned in a row over the government’s £1.4 billion catch-up fund on what school leaders deemed a “deeply disappointing” and “truly awful day”. Sir Kevan Collins has quit after just four months in the role as catch-up tsar as he warned the government’s package “falls far short of what is […]

Former North Norfolk MP and senior Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb has admitted he has let his membership lapse over the party’s Brexit positioning. Lamb, who was the runner-up in the leadership contest in 2015, has told the Politico news website that he holds no grudges with his former colleagues but was heavily critical of the […]

The pandemic might finally be giving the party a purpose, but it will also highlight the tensions of its dual heritage of economic liberalism and social democracy For the first time since the last election the Liberal Democrats are getting some national attention. In his unqualified opposition to vaccine passports and some of the other pandemic constraints […]

The many chapters in the career of Shirley Williams tell the story of post-war Britain For all her recent reputation as a well-loved grandmother of British politics, Shirley Williams was not unfamiliar with its sharper edges. At a 1959 rally in support of independence for Nyasaland (later Malawi) at the Royal Albert Hall, racist hecklers […]

Nick Clegg has said the EU has let itself and millions of Europeans down over its troubled Covid vaccine rollout. This comes as a new poll shows two-thirds of adults believe being outside the EU helped the UK’s vaccination programme to succeed. Clegg told LBC radio he thought “the EU has let itself down, more importantly […]

Shirley Williams, the former Labour cabinet minister who broke away from the party to form the SDP, has died aged 90. In a statement Lib Dem leader Ed Davey paid tribute to Baroness Williams of Crosby as a “true trailblazer” who had inspired millions. As a Labour minister, Lady Williams, served in the governments of […]