What is this Labour government playing at? Having steadfastly refused to abolish OFWAT until last week, they now blithely announce, as if it’s some great triumph, that sewerage dumping will halve by ...

Parliamentarians, including 19 Lib Dem MPs and Peers, have this week sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Foreign ...

Wow! The Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield and I, only a week or so ago, spoke with students from Stanborough School about whether the voting age should be lowered to 16. We divided the Council Chamber into ...

In Market Harborough, the Conservatives secured a close-fought victory against us. Commiserations to Roger Dunton and the local team for the result here. Harborough DC, Market Harborough-Logan ...

For East Europeans the overriding emotional issue is fear. Through the centuries Russia has proven itself to be a bad neighbour. The Baltic States alone had more than 130,000 people arrested and sent ...

A few “political open goals” have been facing the Lib Dems recently, from the firing of Christine Jardine from the front bench (covered wonderfully by Lib Dem Voice’s own Mathew Hulbert) to Unite the ...

Ed Davey will give a major speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London. We’re used to hearing from the right that our high energy prices are all to do with nasty net zero. Ed will ...

To say that Birmingham City Council is facing a number of challenges at the moment would be an understatement. A combination of savage cuts to their central funding, a failed IT system, and the equal ...

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza has produced a totally damming Report on Child Poverty in the UK. The report is based on listening to children about their experiences of poverty – ...

There is quite a sisterhood in politics, a solidarity between women that transcends party. One of the major drivers of that is that we all have to put up with the same crap within our parties. Whether ...

There are some things that you just can’t polish.” So I said when i spoke against the Government’s plans to bring secret courts into the area of civil law back in 2013. For some inexplicable reason, ...

The Liberal Democrats are a flexible party on the spectrum. Coming from the traditional centre ground, it has attracted many voters who have come from different perspectives on politics. Recently, we ...