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Lib Dem leader says government should use new taxes on banks and wealthy to put nearly £5bn a year into health service

On the eve of the Lib Dem conference, party leader talks up importance of social care – and being constructive

Speaking to The Standard, he says: ‘We made a massive demolition job on the Blue Wall. But there is more to go.’

The Conservative leadership race reveals a party still banging the same old drums. Natural Tory voters are looking on askance, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Theresa May and Keir Starmer have led political reaction to the damning report into the Grenfell disaster

Lib Dem leader pushes for vote to stop ending of the payment for all pensioners on Sept 16

Seats hosting the upmarket chain were key to the Lib Dems’ Tory-ousting strategy in July’s election. But, after recent protests, Gail’s is much more controversial than it seems

Sir Keir Starmer’s approval ratings have dropped from plus 7 to 0 but he is still more popular than Rishi Sunak

In first interview since the election, leader says party’s 72 MPs have a platform for the next parliament

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him