John Potter of the Lib Dem Pod quizzed me about my first experiences of the House of Lords for our latest joint podcast.

How on earth do you follow that?’ That is the question bugging Ed Davey’s team after his stunts stole the show at the 2024 election.

Ed Davey gave the closing speech at the Spring 2025 Liberal Democrat Federal Conference in Harrogate: We meet at a time of ...

Six principal authority council by-elections this week, two unusually on Wednesday and then four traditionally on Thursday.

Three principal authority council by-elections this week, featuring a full slate of Liberal Democrat candidates – one up on the last time these wards were up. Penllergaer (Swansea) Council By-Election ...

News of the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Runcorn and Helsby Parliamentary by-election, courtesy of the BBC: The Liberal Democrats have chosen their candidate to contest the upcoming Runcorn and ...

– indicates that party didn’t feature in the polling questions separate from ‘Others’ or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous comparable poll (i.e. by ...

Read about the selections of Liberal Democrat election candidates. You can sign up for email alerts when new posts appear by filling in the form at the bottom of each of the posts. If you know of ...

A reminder of something completely different to the usual: in 2024 I picked my five favourite spy novels for the Spybrary podcast. For a variation from the usual Never Mind The Podcasts fare, take a ...