Across the United Kingdom, the role of the local high street is changing. Many of the civic buildings that once anchored communities, such as local police stations, small health centres, and council ...

These are not normal political times. These are not easy times. And they are certainly not times when large swathes of the ...

Arthur Preece OBE (1928 – 2026) was a figure of both regional and national stature in the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats. He will be greatly missed by those he worked with and supported ...

It’s the wrong time for any serious party leader to advocate getting rid of our nuclear weapons. Yesterday, Ed probably said the most sensible thing anyone could say. If we’re going to keep nuclear ...

Six years after Britain left the European Union, the promise that we would “take back control” rings hollow. The truth is painful: Brexit has weakened our country. It has diminished our prosperity, ...

Ed Davey’s speech to Conference yesterday is already proving controversial within the party. His announcement that we are now ...

Invigorating. That’s the best word to sum up the LDER (Liberal Democrats For Electoral Reform) fringe last night. The panel, ...

Arriving in York, I was reminded of what a wonderful city this is. To watch the beautiful Ouse meandering amidst some ...

Today at Conference, after a hotly contested emergency motions ballot, Conference will be debating a motion by the Young ...

There is a welcome conversation happening in our party right now about the limits of GDP as a measure of success. As our Thriving Economy working group develops the policies that will take us into the ...

Emergency motion - for my sins, I once got an emergency motion (on the situation in Fiji, since you ask) onto the ballot at a Bournemouth conference. Baroness Liddiard was very sympathetic to it. It w ...

There were five principal council by-elections this week, of which all had a Liberal Democrat candidate on the ballot. Three ...