This week, there were five principal council by-elections. All of this week’s contests were in England, stretching from Blackpool, where the Christmas season is marked by the glow of the famous ...

Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year Once again, we end a year with more Liberal Democrat councillors than at the start, with more Lib Dem council leaders than at the start and with a greater spread ...

This week, there were nine local council by-elections, from all over the country. Three local by-elections did not have a Liberal Democrat candidate. We start in the Highlands, where wewere able to ...

The Additional Member System (AMS), otherwise known as Mixed Member Proportional (MMP), is one of the leading contenders as a Proportional Representation system for UK General Elections. However, as ...

In case the message hasn’t quite got through to our European Leaders, you can’t voice it more starkly than in the new U.S. National Security Strategy. The new strategy shows the U.S. administration’s ...

All the debate in the press on the “right” to a jury trial in England (and Wales?) has been interesting from a Scottish perspective. In Scotland, the vast majority of criminal cases are tried in the ...

This phrase, or variants of it, has a long history and invokes different meaning to different people. We all need to realise what we may mean by it is not what those who hear it understand by it. The ...

There are moments when Parliament must intervene not because it is politically convenient, but because failure to act would be morally indefensible. This is one of those moments. Lawyers representing ...

There are few current issues more emotive than that of immigration, so I wanted to take a dispassionate view of the future ...

Three new Lib Dem peers have been announced today. Party Chief Exec Mike Dixon, Ed Davey’s Chief of Staff Rhiannon Leaman and ...

The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be ...

Government must declare a national emergency and offer flu jabs unconditionally” Following news that resident doctors have voted to strike from Wednesday in England, and following surging rates of ...