
Are Lib Dems deserting a sinking ship?
Ed Jacobs rounds up all the latest gaffes and electioneering from Wales and Scotland in the run-up to the elections.

Ed Jacobs rounds up all the latest gaffes and electioneering from Wales and Scotland in the run-up to the elections.

Kevin Meagher takes a look at the Lid Dems’ current electoral prospects, looking in particular at the leadership of Nick Clegg.

Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, takes apart the arguments against AV used by some in the Labour party.

Hugh O’Donnell, the Lib Dem MSP for the Central Scotland region has announced that he is to quit the party and contest the seat in May’s elections as an independent.

David Hall-Matthews, chair of the Social Liberal Forum, outlines four reasons why Nick Clegg needs to radically change his approach to Labour.

For Nick Clegg, it seems motions passed at party conferences condemning the government’s health reforms could soon become the least of his worries, with the Liberals facing meltdown in Scotland and Wales.

Liberal Democrats have left with a with a clear direction of travel on NHS for both the Party’s leadership.

Following today’s decision by the Liberal Democrats to push for a re-write of the Government’s NHS bill, John Healey writes an open letter to Lib Dem members exclusively on Left Foot Forward.

Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats were routed in the Barnsley Central by-election last night, beaten into sixth place by Labour, the Tories, UKIP, an independent and the BNP – just 15 miles from his Sheffield constituency.

Labour is well ahead in the opinion polls but the spade work has to be done now so the party is well-positioned for the possibility that the next election will result in another hung parliament.