Like you, I’m an advocate of taxing differently, so as to stimulate economic growth in a fair and sustainable way. We shouldn’t be taxing workers and businesses more. Every Lib Dem Conference I’m ...

In the excitement of appointing a new Prime Minister, the Manchester Mayoral election, and Count Binface’s adventures in Clacton, the government’s proposals for local government reform in England have ...

We have a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who has successfully pulled off a bloodless coup more akin to the Glorious than the French Revolution. However, now he is in office, he cannot escape the ...

“He’s not the Messiah,” a voice from the Conservative benches heckled during Andy Burnham’s swearing-in. Quite right. Britain doesn’t need another political saviour. We’ve spent far too long investing ...

I read the piece by Oliver Jacques earlier this week with some interest. As a second-generation migrant myself, you might not be surprised to find that my views on migration are relatively liberal. I ...

Five principal authority elections took place across England and Wales on Thursday 30th July. The Liberal Democrats were defending one seat in Hampshire, while Plaid Cymru were defending one seat in ...

Pardon my scepticism, but I do not think Trump’s recent announcement about Hamas’s disarmament is the diplomatic breakthrough that some commentators are claiming. For a start, there is Trump’s ...

On Saturday 25 July, I attended the counter-protest at Glasgow Green in response to the so-called “Unite the Clans” ...

Thirty years after the then Government established the “Royal Commission on Long Term Care”, five years after the 2021 Health and Social Care Act was to sort out social care once and for all, social ...

Andy Burnham has promised to ‘fix’ social care and to ‘use some of his political capital on the issue’. The first steps are expected this week. Ed Davey, who has campaigned strongly on the issue, ...

Andy Burnham has rightly made fixing social care a top priority and seems, on the face of it, to be genuinely interested in reaching a cross party consensus. Social care has been a priority for ...

The much-vaunted “Manchesterism” of our new Prime Minister is starting to take its national shape, with his early policy pledges and the appointment of his Cabinet. It’s a relentless focus on the cost ...