We are the party of civil liberties - that is what, we would argue, should be an uncontested fact. From the Snoopers Charter to campaigning for equal rights for minority communities, it is the raison ...

So, God love our party but aaarrrggghhh sometimes it drives me crazy. So, before I rant (I know…not like me at all, right?; LDV Editor: “Er, if you say so Mathew”), let me say that I do indeed love ...

Ed Davey calls for UK airdrops to get aid to Gazans Davey urges PM to pressure Trump on ending the humanitarian disaster in Gaza Doctors strike: Lib Dems call for patients to be sent to private ...

Liberals have a proud record of opposing state intrusion into daily life. I learned the story of the Liberal role in liberating UK citizens from compulsory ID cards after the end of the Second ...

Lib Dems slam Govt for forcing through foreign state news ownership in face of “historic” cross-party resistance Cleverly on ECHR: Cracks in Badenoch’s reshuffle starting to show Lib Dems ...

On Wednesday, 16 July, I attended my first Full Council meeting as a Deputy Mayor. I sat quietly next to the Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield. It did feel different. Did it feel strange? Yes, it did ...

Theories, threats, counter-threats and conspiracies are flying thick and thin around the name of convicted paedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the nature of his relationship with ...

The wild rollercoaster of the 1920s The 1920s are rather the forgotten decade of British politics. The ‘long 1920s’, from the general election of 1918 until that of 1931, was a wild ...

Responding to Sir Jon Cunliffe’s report into the water industry including the call to scrap Ofwat, Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson Tim Farron said: This is a big win for the Liberal ...

Dick Newby has served us very well as Lib Dem Leader in the Lords since September 2016. He has now stood down and there was an election to replace him between Yorkshire’s Kath Pinnock and ...

The statistics revealed that in the year ending March 2025, shoplifting offences soared by 20% to the highest figure on record since current police recording practices began in 2003. 530,643 ...

The UK–US trade deal is being celebrated in Westminster as the first tangible post-Brexit win for a beleaguered trading nation. The UK–US trade deal explicitly includes agricultural and food ...