Thorpe dilemma for Liberal Democrats
Norman Scott, whom Jeremy Thorpe was accused of trying to murder, warns Thorpe’s funeral will be an occasion for political bigwigs to gloss over the extraordinary events of the 1960s and 1970s.
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We sit down with the leader of the Liberal Democrats – Sir Ed Davey.
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We spoke to the Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey.
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At the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth the new party leader Jo Swinson wants one thing above all – to cancel Brexit altogether, without holding a second referendum.
Remember coalition politics? Today the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron categorically ruled out any deals with any party. And with Brexit looming large, former PM Tony Blair appeared to urge Labour voters to vote tactically if their Labour candidate supported Leave.
Before the last election, Nick Clegg said it was “time to say goodbye to broken promises”. Did he keep his word?
Norman Scott, whom Jeremy Thorpe was accused of trying to murder, warns Thorpe’s funeral will be an occasion for political bigwigs to gloss over the extraordinary events of the 1960s and 1970s.
Watch: Nick Clegg’s keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow.
With scandals and polls suggesting the Liberal Democrats are in crisis, Political Correspondent Michael Crick went on the hunt for some answers at the party’s Spring conference.
Liberal Democrat high command is talking about losing “a quite high single figure number of seats” as a result of the Boundary Review in England. Our analysis, commissioned from the political analyst Lewis Baston, suggests that it could be a loss as high as 10 in England. Factor in projected losses in Scotland and Wales…