Liberal Democrats

Lib Dems face court over funding from Michael Brown

guardian.co.uk     4 hrs ago   1 related          

US lawyer Robert Mann is poised to sue, claiming that the party wrongly accepted £632,000 of his money as part of a gift from an expat financier The Liberal Democrats are facing an embarrassing High Court battle with a...                    

Caroline Lucas - should the Lib Dems be worried?

libdemblogs.co.uk     10 hrs ago   7 related          

Caroline Lucas has just won the Green Party leadership election with 92% of the vote. Rumours that she is about to grow a moustache and answer to the name Saddam are apparently wide of the mark. Seriously though, the Lib...                    

Gordon Brown's change of heart signals Alex Salmond's big weekend

telegraph.co.uk     yesterday   35 related          

That old adage 'something for the weekend' has taken on a new meaning for Alex Salmond today for the simple reason that the political tide continues to flow ever faster in his direction. That famous grin of his will be...                    

Lib Dems at the crossroads?

libdemblogs.co.uk     yesterday          

As a party, the Lib Dems are rather good at lots of things, but we are generally at our very best when we are beating ourselves up. The latest excuse? A new President. This of course is nothing like the US Presidential...                    

Bones: Should we challenge its assumptions?

libdemblogs.co.uk     yesterday          

The ideas and recommendations for changes to how the Liberal Democrats are organised and run contained in the Bones report are clearly built around the aim of achieving greater electoral success at Westminster. The remit...                    

Chris Huhne writes: Don't underestimate the Lib Dems

libdemblogs.co.uk     yesterday   3 related          

The new conventional wisdom at Westminster is that the Conservatives are heading for an overall majority at the next election, and that the Liberal Democrats are therefore bound to take a pounding. On this view, the Lib...                    

No relief from worrying news

ross-shirejournal.co.uk     yesterday          

Published: 05 September, 2008 IT IS back to Edinburgh this week for the start of the 10th year of the Scottish Parliament. Tavish Scott has become the new leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland and the result of the...                    

A simple guide to the Lib Dem policy process

libdemblogs.co.uk     04-Sep-2008          

Some time ago I was asked to write a short guide to the Liberal Democrat policy process for those wanting to know how it works. After a bit of prodding I did eventually get around to doing it, but the people who'd asked...                    

Party politics

lga.gov.uk     04-Sep-2008          

The annual conference season kicks off next week with the Lib Dem faithful gathering in Bournemouth. In September 2007, all the talk was about Gordon Brown’s strong start as prime minister and whether there would be an...                    

Tory’s No to Assembly lawmaking

icnetwork.co.uk     04-Sep-2008   1 related          

Sep 4 2008 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail A WELSH Conservative MP has caused a political storm by announcing he plans to launch a cross-party campaign for a No vote in the promised referendum on full lawmaking powers...                    

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