Martin Wolf, as so often, had it right in the Financial Times the other week.  He argued that in the multi-headed crisis we ...
If you were at our recent Spring conference, you will hopefully have heard all about my campaign to become the first Mayor of ...
The tax system in the UK exacerbates age inequality and puts an increasingly unsustainable burden on Gen Z and Millennials. A millionaire like Rishi Sunak pays an effective rate of 23% tax on his ...
Our electoral system cannot cope Securing 30% of the vote in a general election used to be a general election losing vote share for Labour or the Conservatives. But it is now quite possible that ...
Embed from Getty Images I’ve just finished this book, having ordered it when it was published. It’s the edited diaries of Simon Hart, who was Conservative MP for Carmarthen West and South ...
She made the point that it is going to be much harder for disabled people to get into work because of the increase in employers’ National Insurance contribution and confirmed that the Lib Dems ...
The quality of my life dramatically improved when I realised i didn’t actually have to sit through the rally. I could go and have a quiet dinner out with friends and then watch it on You Tube later.
Yes to some variation of single market. Even yes to free movement if allied with a tighter control on benefit claimants, ensure all employees are registered tax payers. The LD’s anti-brexit ...
I came across an article by Chris Whiting on Lib Dem Voice, which you can read here. Chris makes a compelling case for why liberals and socialists should collaborate, and I highly recommend it.
I once thought I was a socialist. I’m not sure I ever really was. I have since discovered I am a philosophically liberal social democrat, but it took a bit of a journey to recognise this! Where ...
CANZUK plus EU makes much better sense. Such a grouping would really challenge the USA, which is why Trump is already fulminating against such a possibility and issuing threats. We should forget ...
We meet at a time of great peril. For our continent, and for our country. Because Donald Trump is not only betraying Ukraine. It’s not only their sovereignty he’s selling out. It’s our security.