Twelve principal authority by-elections across England, Wales and Scotland took place on Thursday 2nd July, carrying on a trend of unusually high numbers of by-elections over the past few weeks.

Richard Webber, husband to Catherine, father to Edward, Rebecca, Richard, and Sophie, was my friend and mentor, and he died peacefully at home last Sunday after a long fight with oesophageal cancer.

While the world’s attention has been fixed on Iran, Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz, Gaza has quietly slipped from the headlines. That is unfortunate, because the territory is settling into a ...

The party’s ongoing strategy review is welcome. But collecting feedback is only the beginning. Turning it into a successful long-term strategy requires us to answer four fundamental questions. 1. What ...

ALDE Congress is the largest gathering of our party members alongside our European sister parties. The Liberal Democrats ...

The Federal Conference Committee (FCC) met on Saturday to review motion submissions and begin finalising the agenda for Autumn Conference 2026, which will take place in Brighton from 19 to 22 ...

Last week, a comment appeared under my last LDV piece from Dennis Delice, in which he said he would be interested in an internal party group focused on furthering the case for economic democracy by ...

Recently I had the great thrill of visiting the Tynwald – the Isle Of Man’s parliament. The Isle Of Man is, of course, ...

There has been no shortage of criticism directed at Carl Cashman over the past few days following his appearance as the cover ...

I had a tear or too yesterday when I saw Yi-Pei Chou Turvey MSP become the first British politician to receive the European ...