As someone that worked in the membership department at Lib Dem HQ during a time when we had three surges in membership in as many years, I got to know the elation and pitfalls of membership surges.

In an era when populism erodes democratic norms and insecurity pervades the modern workplace, the defence of liberal democracy must extend beyond parliaments and ballot boxes. It must reach the ...

Ending Wars is the bold title of a new book co-edited by Lord John Alderdice and Padraig O Malley and published earlier this year by the New England Journal of Public Policy. Its companion publication ...

Last week, I wrote about the appalling Tory plan to deport millions of legally settled people. This plan involved cancelling the Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) of people who are not UK Citizens if ...

As the US government shutdown enters its fifth week it is a bad time to be an American and a federal employee; need help with food bills; need to travel by plane; need to buy drugs; have to pay health ...

Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our feed Sign-up for our daily email digest ...

Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our feed Sign-up for our daily email digest ...

Let us travel all the way back to 2010, a year in which a jubilant “Cleggmania” contrasted with a dire backdrop. The economy was in bad shape following the 2008 financial crash. We had just failed to ...

As I said earlier, the party's presidential and vice presidential elections have been counted. Josh Babarinde and Victoria ...

Today the counts get under way for the federal internal elections. Online voting ended at 2pm yesterday but the voting period was dominated by the changes to the diversity quotas announced the day ...

Like many Lib Dems I was  immensely pleased to read of the victory of Sam Ammar in Bromsgrove South last week,  taking a seat ...

Embed from Getty ...