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Lib Dems hopeful of more election gains if Tory drift to right continues

Officials predict further gains if next Conservative leader focuses on winning back voters from Reform UK

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey to urge Lib Dems ‘to finish the job’ and overtake the Tories

Finishing off the Tories will be the main focus of Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s conference speech, rather than attacking the Labour government

The Independent UK

Ed Davey accuses Keir Starmer of ‘mistake’ over refusal to rejoin EU single market

Sir Ed Davey said Sir Keir Starmer’s mission to drive economic growth will be hampered by the PM’s refusal to rejoin the single market

The Independent UK

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Four-week waits for GP appointments on course for record high, Lib Dems warn

The Liberal Democrats said fixing the GP crisis is critical and they are campaigning for everyone to have the right to see a GP within a week

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hopefuls focused on ‘weird’ issues, Lib Dem deputy claims

Daisy Cooper said their ‘politics is weird, their choice of issues is weird, they talk about issues that are not relevant to most people in the country’

The Independent UK

Ed Davey joins calls to let Ukraine use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia

The Liberal Democrat leader joined a growing chorus calling for a shift in stance

The Independent UK

Lib Dems say party stunts will continue as conference gets underway

Daisy Cooper said she believed stunts ‘show you can do politics with some hope’.

Evening Standard

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Nigel Farage questioned over commitment to MP role by Lib Dem chief

Wendy Chamberlain questioned the priorities for Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage, both of whom host shows on GB News

The Independent UK

Local insight needed to tackle tax evasion

Brief letters: Retailers and VAT | Golf-club politics | Ed Davey’s chaotic kitchen | Lib Dem leader’s multiple mobiles | Cabinet ruled out

The Guardian - UK

The Lib Dems are intoxicated by election success but they’ll need to be sober about what comes next

Is it a viable long-term strategy to press Labour from the left while aspiring to take more seats from the Tories?

The Guardian - UK

Former archbishop warns it may be ‘impossible’ to represent the Lib Dems and be Christian

As the Lib Dems gather to meet in Brighton for their annual conference, a legal dispute over the way a candidate was deselected for his Christian beliefs has seen the party disavow two of the giants in its recent history, Charles Kennedy and Shirley Williams

The Independent UK

‘NHS can’t wait any longer’: Ed Davey tells Labour not to delay investment

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

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey: we can offer better opposition than ‘Punch and Judy’ Tories

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

The Guardian - UK

Sir Ed Davey rallies his Liberal Democrat army to 'finish the job' in crushing the Tory Party

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

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Want to know the problem, Tories? You’re … weird. And even your own tribe thinks so

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

The Independent UK

‘We must all acknowledge the part we played’: Ex-PM Theresa May leads political apologies for Grenfell

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

Evening Standard

Ed Davey wants Lib Dems to try to block Labour's axing of winter fuel benefit to all pensioners

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

The Guardian - UK

‘Does it have a Gail’s?’ How a bakery became middle-class England’s most powerful political bellwether

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

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The Independent UK

More than half of people think Britain is ‘moving in wrong direction’ in blow to Starmer

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

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems plan to ‘finish the job’ in Tory heartlands, says Ed Davey

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - The spy who bored me: All the people I knew who became spies are dull — thank goodness

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…

The Guardian - UK

Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

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

The Independent UK

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey apologises to Alan Bates for ‘terse’ refusal to meet

Ex-postal affairs minister admits to inquiry that response was ‘poorly judged’ and says sorry to people who had lives ruined

The Independent UK

Watch: Former postal affairs minister Ed Davey questioned at Horizon IT inquiry

Watch as Sir Ed Davey gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday, 18 July.

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

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