Yesterday Ed Davey reshuffled his top team ahead of the new parliamentary term and added 5 new roles meaning that 38 out of our 72 MPs now have spokesperson roles. There aren’t very many huge ...

Political parties are very nervous of innovation and getting anything on a platform at a conference is always likely to incur significant costs or bureaucratic resistance, but the European ...

Watch our Science and Technology spokesperson Victoria Collins address conference with subtitles.

I expect many LDV readers will by now have seen the interview where Ed was asked the question “can women have penises?” 10 times. He dodges and dances around the point, trying to find the middle ...

Unlike many Lib Dems I came to politics relatively late in life, but opposition to ID cards, along with the Iraq war, were absolutely key to my “Tony Blair made me a Liberal Democrat” political origin ...

I write these words on Monday afternoon, back in Hinckley and Bosworth after a whirlwind (not even) 48 hours in Bournemouth for days one and two of Autumn Conference, reflecting on how different the ...

Gregor Grant-Suttie today announces the sad passing of his grandfather, Menzies “Ming” Campbell, Lord Campbell of Pittenweem and former Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Ming grew up in Glasgow, was ...

The world was focused on Britain this week. A state visit is a big symbolic event but usually the public interest is confined to the two countries involved. Not this time, Trump’s unprecedented second ...

-That was the title of a Bournemouth fringe meeting today. It was hosted by Liberal Democrats for Peace in Middle East. Their President, Leon Duveen, was on the panel with their Chair, Mohammed Amin.

A grave crime has been committed across Britain; an act of egregious theft. The culprits? Fascist thugs who intimidate those who don’t look or sound like them. The crime? Stealing the flag that unites ...

Here is Alex Cole-Hamilton’s speech to Lib Dem Conference with subtitles: Enjoy. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Click ...

I arrived early. Good job. The accommodation I had carefully booked because it was near the conference centre turned out to be halfway to Dover. Google Maps had presented me with a chimera when I ...