The recently finalised UK-India Free Trade Agreement is being sold as a triumph —promising billions in new trade and a “win-win” for both economies. But beneath the headlines lies a provision that ...

Gorgeous news to wake up to this morning. Layla Moran is starting 5 months of parental leave after she and her partner Rosy welcomed their first baby. The BBC reports: Layla Moran has said she is ...

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill could have been an opportunity to empower communities, speed up sustainable development, and unlock infrastructure delivery. Instead, the government has chosen a ...

As usual, the Liberal Democrats are not getting the coverage we deserve for some pretty spectacular election results. The BBC spent most of its coverage talking up Reform, Lewis Goodall on the ...

Has this new idolatry of the Beatles gone too far? The hunt for the £45bn The Joy of Six 1353 Eddie and The Hot Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do Labour failing on climate change ...

Of the 2024 Labour GE voters intending to switch for today’s locals, 28% intend to vote Lib Dem, compared to 26% for Reform and just 12% Green, so while concentrating on One Nation Tories may ...

Ed Davey sounded a confident note with his close of poll statement: We are expecting to see big gains against the Conservatives in their former Middle England heartlands. Last year the Liberal ...

How do we apply Liberalism in day-to-day politics? A thoughtful new book, When We Speak of Freedom, edited by Paul Hindley and Benjamin Wood, deserves more discussion here.The subtitle is ...

We have much to be pleased about. As I write Lib Dems have 327 Council places, up 131 on the previous results in those seats. The big story, of course, is that Reform has gained 575 while the ...

Council tax certainly needs reform given its current unfairness, but this needs to be considered alongside a major rebalancing of tax away from central government towards local government. Sam ...

Embed from Getty Images Mark Carney and the Canadian Liberals have won an extraordinary victory which seemed impossible a few months ago. In hispowerful victory speech in English and French, he ...

Due to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May’s elections is our best showing since May 2009. That is, the proportion of seats we are contesting this time, compared ...