When a Conservative government curbed the Electoral Commission’s independence by taking on the power to set a “Strategy and Policy Statement” to direct its activities, Labour joined the opponents of ...

A reminder of the importance of ensuring that political leaflets have imprints on them: Reform had to go to court to secure legal relief.

Why does central government move so slowly, even for a simple, free and crowd pleasing measure that Martin Lewis was calling ...

It has already been a week in which the Liberal Democrats picked up five councillors, in Flintshire, Swansea and Huntingdonshire. Only the one principal authority council by-elections this week, in a ...

Councillors Tom Sanderson and Ann Blackwell (The Stukeleys, Huntingdonshire Council) have joined the Liberal Democrats.

Possibly good news: having made a mess of it, the government may now tighten the rules on cancelling elections.

Labour councillor Fran Lister has joined the Lib Dems after disagreements with Flintshire’s ruling Labour-led coalition over education ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...

Adam Dance was elected as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Yeovil constituency at the 2024 general election.

First-past-the-post isn’t designed for five or six party politics. Which is why bar charts and MRPs are going to be so important.

Read about the selections of Liberal Democrat (prospective) election candidates, particularly for the next Westminster general election. If you know of other Lib Dem selection news which you think ...