The former ‘rising star’ resigned from the Greens last month, citing transphobia, amid an investigation into her election agent father’s conviction for horrific sexual crimes.
Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson is pushing for all companies with more than 250 employees to make parental leave and pay details public.
A new book by the Lib Dems’ former election guru looks at the tricks that helped the party win in the past. But where now?
The Lib Dems conference is not just about Brexit it seems – a motion on wealth inequality was passed in a bid to plump the Treasury with an extra £15 billion.
The outgoing Lib Dem leader is pushing some bold – and risky – reforms of the party.
“By opening up our party, I hope to convince those who agitate for a new force that there is already a strong movement for open, centrist, and internationalist politics: the Liberal Democrats.”
From hyper-inflated egos to inevitable splits, the factors that stopped the SDP Liberal Alliance in its tracks in the 1980s will eventually destroy any new centre party.
For Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine marching against a US president was anathema. Until Donald Trump.
“When even core groups of Brexit supporters start questioning their decision, it is time to reconsider whether it is still in our national interest to leave.”
The snap election might have proved disappointing for the Tories, but the bid for a progressive government did not win either.
