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The Guardian view on the Lib Dems: Ed Davey wants Tory voters without losing the left

Editorial: The party leader offers social liberalism and lower taxes, hoping opposition to Reform UK will hold together voters with competing economic interests

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22

Lib Dems propose big tech levy to fund £250m online crime agency

Proposal one of many at conference responding to concern voters unaware of party’s policies or what it stands for

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20

The 30 local councils where elections will now go ahead in May after latest Labour U-turn

Labour announced plans to postpone elections in order to address ‘capacity’ issues in areas undergoing restructure

The Independent UK · Jan 17

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Ed Davey coy on Lib Dem-Labour coalition despite being ‘deeply disappointed’ by government

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The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025

‘Tories are not listening’: Ed Davey sure Lib Dems can woo more disgruntled voters

Leader hopes local elections in many traditionally Conservative areas will help party build on recent success

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

Working together, Labour and the Lib Dems could exile the Tories for a generation

Starmer and Davey need to seize the moment. They have enough common ground to ally against their common enemy, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024

Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

Exclusive: party to use biggest-ever cohort of MPs to get ‘essential decisions’ made on issue that ‘cut-through’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2024

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‘A toddler could do better’: how Lib Dems won over Tory stronghold of Henley

The Oxfordshire town – the former seat of Michael Heseltine and Boris Johnson – has been a Tory seat from 1906 until now

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2024

The party leaders on NHS waiting lists and immigration targets

Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2024

Lib Dems hoping fair electoral wind will help blow down England’s ‘blue wall’

Calum Miller, the Lib Dem candidate for Bicester and Woodstock, has been faced with widespread disenchantment from former Tory voters

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2024

Election diary: the manifestos drop and Rish! reveals a childhood without Sky TV

The Lib Dems led the pack – on manifesto launch catering – and we finally learned the extent of the PM’s childhood deprivation

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

Ed Davey's eye-popping rollercoaster ride in latest election stunt after launching Lib Dem manifesto

He first grabbed the media spotlight by falling off a paddleboard on Lake Windermere

Evening Standard · Jun 10, 2024

Election diary: Rishi Sunak makes a French exit and Ed Davey wins hearts

The PM slipped away from D-day events to give an interview, while the Lib Dem leader talked movingly about his son

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

General election 2024: What are the Liberal Democrats' policies and who is their leader Ed Davey?

The Lib Dems want to clean several Tory failures by focusing on health, care, crumbling schools and sewage

Evening Standard · May 23, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024

My time in Downing Street: humbling, good for the soul, but painful

Should Labour make it across the line, the reality of having to govern could be overwhelming, the Lib Dem coalition years adviser recalls

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024

Water firms’ profits in England and Wales almost double since 2019, find Lib Dems

Party to call for measures to stop companies prioritising profit over environment at spring conference

The Independent UK · May 29, 2023

80 robberies a day closed without identifying a suspect in 2022, Lib Dems claim

The party said it had commissioned research showing 30,000 muggings went unsolved in 2022 across England and Wales

The Independent UK · May 28, 2023

80 robberies a day unsolved in 2022, Lib Dems claim

The party said it had commissioned research showing 30,000 muggings went unsolved in 2022 across England and Wales.

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Manchester Evening News · May 22, 2023

Lib Dems poised to take power in Stockport as Labour drops bid to run town hall

It comes after this year’s local elections again left the council under ‘no overall control’.

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023

Boris Johnson records election clip inside moving car without seatbelt on

Lib Dems urge Derbyshire police to investigate clip of Johnson urging Conservatives to vote

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023

Lib Dems call for investigation into ‘purdah breach’ maths policy announcement

Christine Jardine MP has said she is ‘deeply concerned’ that it breaches the Government’s own guidance on the pre-election period of sensitivity.

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2023

Lib Dems to target Labour voters in ‘blue wall’ swing seats, says Ed Davey

Party leader hopes letter campaign in commuter belt areas can tempt voters to switch in order to beat Tories

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022

From nukes to corporation tax: Liz Truss’s history of flip-flopping

After PM’s latest U-turn, we look at other reversals since her days as a Lib Dem activist

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022

Lib Dems demand scrapping of MPs’ recess to allow scrutiny of mini-budget

The Commons is due to break for the conference season after the Chancellor’s fiscal statement on Friday.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 2, 2022

Edinburgh climate experts tell new councillors to work together for net zero by 2030

Labour, the SNP, Lib Dems and Greens are all agreed on the 2030 net zero target set out by the Edinburgh Climate Commission - but the Tories say it's "physically impossible to achieve in eight years".

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