The Latest Breaking News from the Lib Dems

The Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK all believe they are on course to make significant gains at City Hall

Letters: Doubts about the role and direction of the Liberal Democrats are voiced by Michael Meadowcroft, Paul Lally, Gordon Vassell and Peter Loschi

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

The duopoly at the centre of our electoral system promises stability, yet delivers anything but. Labour must be ready for that, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The party has a reputation for telling porkies

A YouGov survey has predicted that several senior ministers are on track to lose their seats to Labour, Lib Dems and the SNP

Letter shows the Lib Dem leader initially refused to meet a campaigner when he was a minister responsible for the service

Letter: The party’s president, Dr Mark Pack, responds to a letter from senior party members who argued that the Lib Dem offering must be more radical and less cautious. Plus letters from Dr Alan Butt Philip and Peter Wrigley

Letters: Senior members call on the party to do more to highlight its differences from Labour and the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election