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The Agenda and Reports to Conference have been published for the Autumn Lib Dem Federal Conference in Bournemouth.

The good news though is the BBC has now changed the headline: Thank you for getting in touch with us about the above article which was originally headlined: “Driver jailed after e-bike crash kills ...

Jeremy Purvis said: It is an honour to receive the support of my fellow peers and be elected Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group. Under my leadership, we will be a voice for liberal campaigning on ...

Newly elected Reform UK councillor Donna Edmunds has already been suspended by her party for talking of defecting.

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw Paula Surridge return to the show, talking about the impact of political values and of perceived competence on recent general elections. We got into ...

New polling from pollsters More in Common shows strong support from the public for the recent farmer protests.

Congratulations to the following Liberal Democrats spotted in the 2025 King’s Birthday honours: Mike Cox, Lib Dem councilor and chair of our federal finance committee (FFRC) – CBE “for Political and ...

Here is a curio. Michael Ramage was elected in May as a councillor in County Durham as one of the Reform UK candidates. In other words, he is not a member of the official Reform group on the council ...

Reform UK has shed yet another councillor after John Bailey, elected for Easington and Shotton ward on County Durham in May, quit.

New data is out from the annual British Social Attitudes survey: Support for electoral reform has reached a new high – A record 60% are in favour of changing the electoral system ‘to allow smaller ...

Liberal Democrat party leader Ed Davey tells the BBC that defence spending should increase to 2.5% of GDP.