The conference policy paper on "Mending the Safety Net" contains lots of good stuff on a wide range of welfare policy, even if I say so as a member of its working group. But, at Conference and…
A veteran European federalist, Belgian ex-Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, will be the European Parliament's negotiator in Brexit talks with the UK. Mr Verhofstadt, leader of the liberal MEPs, tweeted…
Pre-2010 this was a Labour / Lib Dem ward with the Lib Dems winning out in 2008, but then the Lib Dem slide started with Labour winning in May 2010. By 2014 the Lib Dems were third and in 2015…
When I launched our petition to save studying abroad, I didn't quite expect the reaction we got. In no time at all, we've collected almost 10,000 signatures and our campaign is growing bigger every…
More than two months have passed since the referendum and those of us who campaigned to remain have had some long, hard thinking to do. For Theresa May and the Conservatives, the painstaking task of…
After a hiatus in meetings over the summer, the Federal Policy Committee met for the first time on 6th September 2016. This was a very lengthy meeting. It commenced at 14:30 and went on well into the…
Yesterday I announced a plan to keep Britain at the heart of Europe. First and foremost, I believe the British people should be given the right to vote on the government's negotiated Brexit deal.…
Targeting Plus: that's the name for a new strategy for rebuilding the party set out in a pamphlet published today. It is based on the four pillars of building a larger core vote for the party,…
In this exclusive extract from his new book, the former deputy prime minister talks about how difficult it is to get things done in Whitehall. Especially when you're up against an ideologue education…
For five years, he was the brakes on a 'cynical' Conservative party, argues the former deputy prime minister. Was the cost, personal and political, worth it? I'm standing on the edge of a one-horse…
