As usual, the Liberal Democrats are not getting the coverage we deserve for some pretty spectacular election results. The BBC spent most of its coverage talking up Reform, Lewis Goodall on the ...

We have much to be pleased about. As I write Lib Dems have 327 Council places, up 131 on the previous results in those seats. The big story, of course, is that Reform has gained 575 while the ...

Ed Davey sounded a confident note with his close of poll statement: We are expecting to see big gains against the Conservatives in their former Middle England heartlands. Last year the Liberal ...

Local elections can be a bit unreliable as regards how the electorate are inclined to vote. Poor turnouts, local factors etc can all skew a result. The Welsh Senedd May next year will be a far ...

The recent by-elections should be a wake-up call for those voters who believe that their vote doesn’t have a power. It does. Go out and vote, support your freedom and use the right that people 200 ...

Of the 2024 Labour GE voters intending to switch for today’s locals, 28% intend to vote Lib Dem, compared to 26% for Reform and just 12% Green, so while concentrating on One Nation Tories may ...

I’m challenging myself with a prediction of how the local elections will pan out. Admittedly, I don’t quite have the time or energy to go through each ward of each council up for election in ...

Council tax certainly needs reform given its current unfairness, but this needs to be considered alongside a major rebalancing of tax away from central government towards local government. Sam ...

Due to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May’s elections is our best showing since May 2009. That is, the proportion of seats we are contesting this time, compared ...

I’ll start by thanking Hugh Andrew for his excellent LDV post from the 23 rd April – ‘A thief in the night’, which I completely agree with. I’m old enough to remember the Napster file ...

The first 100 days of the Trump Administration has been among the most consequential in American history. Consequential does not necessarily mean good. In this case, it means very, very bad.

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