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Image description: Ed Davey on a yellow background. These past five years, you had to feel sorry for us Liberal Democrats. It would take a cold heart indeed to ignore our plight, whatever your political views. We have staggered lethargically from leader to leader, a rudderless ship swept this way and that by events. Two […]
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Image description: Sir Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats Party. There are many aspects of the political landscape today that would have been completely unbelievable just several months ago – primarily, of course, that the European elections are even taking place. Efforts by the Conservatives and Labour to cooperate on passing a universally unpopular Brexit […]
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The Lib Dems are here to stay – Ben Harris I hope that the irony of writing a lengthy article arguing that the Liberal Democrats are “no longer worth talking about” was not lost on the author published alongside me. If anyone needed a reason for an alternative to the predominantly Labour and Conservative status […]
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Nick Clegg’s rise to power was meteoric, if unexpected. After being a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for five years, he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam in 2015. Within just two years he had been elected as leader of his political party, the Liberal Democrats. Little did he […]
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The last time we spoke to Layla Moran, she was a parliamentary candidate, busily fighting for a marginal seat in the 2015 general election. Despite an inspiring campaign backed by strong community support, it is fair to say that the legacy of the coalition government proved to be an obstacle in her path to representing […]
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The ‘strongest possible mandate’ could damage the country and Britain’s exit from the EU. Whether we like it or not, this election will largely be fought over Brexit. May is arguing that she needs ‘the strongest possible hand’ and ‘the strongest possible mandate’ in order to negotiate with ‘our opponents’ who are ‘already seeking to […]
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Yes, Sarah Olney has done it. She has increased the number of Lib Dem MPs by 12.5% and become the party’s one-and-only female MP. Tim Farron is keen to make the most of this most public moment of Lib Dem success since Clegg’s first TV debate in 2010. Olney’s destruction of a 23,000 vote Tory […]
Continue ReadingFor Tories, Labourites and Lib Dems alike, it is a crying shame that Clegg has fallen by the wayside in government. Somewhere between January and May 2010 the Lib Dems made the jump from being a party of local government to being perceived as a genuine possibility for national government. Soaring poll ratings for Clegg, […]
Continue ReadingRichard Roberts sees Nick Clegg as a good politician in a context which is foreign to him
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