Gary Gibbon
Farage sinks a pint… and a party’s hopes?
Ukip’s success at the polls threatens the Conservatives, but also poses a bigger challenge to Labour and the Liberal Democrats than previously thought.
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Euro results ‘gutting’, but Clegg won’t ‘walk away’
Nick Clegg says the results of the European elections – which have left the Liberal Democrats with just one MEP – are “gutting” and “heartbreaking”, but insists he will not walk away from the party.
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Ukip local poll breakthrough – but not quite an earthquake
The local election results produce Ukip successes in Tory Essex and Labour Rotherham, while Labour is the big winner in London. The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, lose control in Portsmouth.
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Local elections 2014 – the key questions
You could be forgiven for thinking Ukip won the council elections. It didn’t, but a strong showing from Nigel Farage’s party has sent shockwaves through the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
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Nick Clegg: Labour and Tories will send recovery ‘backwards’
Nick Clegg says there would have been “no recovery” without the Liberal Democrats, as he lambasts the main political parties at the Liberal Democrat spring conference.
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Elvis party leaves Lib Dems all shook up
The “Bus Pass Elvis Party”, which campaigns on a platform to reduce vets’ fees and give OAPs a discount in brothels, has beaten the Liberal Democrats in a by-election.
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Coalition parties hammered in Wythenshawe by-election
Labour retains Wythenshawe and Sale East in a by-election, while the Conservatives are pushed into third place by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats lose their deposit.
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Gove heads for clash with Lib Dems over Ofsted job
Education Secretary Michael Gove faces a fresh coalition clash with the Liberal Democrats after refusing to rule out appointing a Conservative party donor to head the schools inspectorate, Ofsted.
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Jesus and Mo: freedom of expression or offensive?
Maajid Nawaz “exercised his freedom of speech in expressing a minority Muslim view” and the Liberal Democrats “defend his right to do that”, Lord Ashdown tells Channel 4 News.
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Lib Dems in disarray over Lord Rennard refusal to apologise
Nick Clegg is considering whether Lord Rennard should be kicked out of the Liberal Democrats – because his refusal to apologise over his inappropriate behaviour brings the party into disrepute.
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Lord Rennard will not face harassment charges
A police investigation into claims of sexual harassment in the highest echelons of the Liberal Democrats has ruled there is insufficient evidence to support a prosecution.
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‘Trust me – I’m a politician’: polling and credibility
Polling research by Iposos MORI for Channel 4 News shows the Labour Party trails the Tories on economic credibility, and that the Liberal Democrats claim to be a “party of government” is not believed.
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Tories and Lib Dems pass £520,000 donation to the Treasury
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats hand £520,000 to the Treasury after a political spat over whether the late Joan Edwards’s donation was intended for government or party use.
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Clegg: Lib Dems ‘knew nothing’ of immigration poster vans
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticises a Home Office scheme in which vans bore billboards encouraging illegal immigrants to return “home”, insisting no Liberal Democrats were aware of the plan.
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Lib Dems forced to embrace Trident deterrent
A review of Britain’s nuclear deterrent, led by the Liberal Democrats, rejects alternatives to the submarine-based Trident system as too costly.
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Gary Gibbon