Jo Grimond meeting John F Kennedy. It does not appear that either were singing at the time. Ed Davey may be getting the news about his Christmas single, but he’s not the first party leader to have got ...

Welcome to the 137th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which is a follow-up to last time’s piece on why banning polls would be a bad idea. This time it’s about why paying lots of attention to the ...

– indicates that party didn’t feature in the polling questions separate from ‘Others’ or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous comparable poll (i.e. by ...

Five Christmas, birthday, wedding, graduation, driving test pass, citizenship acquisition or candidate selection victory gift ideas for that special person you know. (And more tasteful than some ...

There is a new Lib Dem councillor in Sheffield, Willis Marshall. Nine principal authority council by-elections this week for ten seats, and a full slate of Lib Dem candidates, up a very welcome four ...

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

As this new data from Ofcom shows, it’s the dominant app across age and gender. Note too how widespread email is, with just the one email app, Gmail, on its own appearing in the top ten. Politicians ...

A news release from Chesham and Amersham Liberal Democrats brings the news: Cllr Jonathan Waters, Deputy Cabinet Member at Buckinghamshire Council, has joined the Liberal Democrats after resigning ...

Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – new research from Caitlin Milazzo and colleagues about what candidates and parties put ...

New polling from More in Common shows strong support from the public for the recent farmer protests: As More in Common’s Luke Tryl explains: In part that seems to be motivated by the fact that people ...

Fifteen principal authority council by-elections this week, with 13 Liberal Democrat candidates – one up on the last time these seats were up. Oakham North East (Rutland) Council By-Election Result:🔶 ...

Read about the 2025 Liberal Democrat autumn federal conference.