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The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024

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 · Sep 15, 2024

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 · Sep 14, 2024

‘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

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2024

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

Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2024

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 Independent UK · Aug 18, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024

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…

Evening Standard · Jul 22, 2024

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 Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2024