‘Headphone dodgers’ may not be able to afford £1,000 fines, says Badenoch The Liberal Democrats have proposed steep fines for people playing music out loud from their phones on public transport. Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2025
Tory Meltdown Alert as Voters Flee Before Local Polls It’s no secret that Labour's been struggling lately, dropping from the high 40s in the polls to less than half that in just a year. The Fashion Central · Apr 23, 2025
Lib Dems hoping anti-Trump stance will give them boost in local elections Labour and Tories’ reluctance to criticise US president could pave way for gains in May’s council and mayoral ballots The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2025
Ed Davey has a cunning plan to win over the protest voters: speak globally, think locally With local elections looming, the Lib Dem leader has moved on from Brexit in a bid to woo disillusioned former Tories The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2025
Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’ Ministers urged to act as energy, water, car tax, TV licences and a string of other increases squeeze households The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2025
Lib Dems take aim at Tory place as ‘party of Middle England’ in local elections The Liberal Democrats are hoping to erode the Conservative vote at the local elections in May. Evening Standard · Mar 30, 2025
Liberal Democrats take aim at Tory place as ‘party of Middle England’ in local elections The Liberal Democrats are hoping to erode the Conservative vote at the local elections in May. The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2025
Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else The Conservative leader isn’t convincing fellow Tories that she possesses a viable route map to recovery The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2025
Davey: ‘Disdainful’ Badenoch thinks fixing church roofs is beneath her Her comments reveal the Tories’ ‘disdainful thinking’, the Lib Dem leader will say in a speech to his party’s spring conference. Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2025
Poll has strongest Scottish support recorded for Reform UK Analysis of the Survation poll for Quantum Communications put Reform on 14 seats. The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025
‘Country first, party second,’ says Starmer. So why menace Labour members who actually believe that? Two party activists in Sussex who worked with the Lib Dems last year to kick out the Tories have been expelled. This is horribly short-sighted, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025
Revealed: House of Lords members have given £109m to political parties Conservatives benefit most from donations provided either before or after peers secured their seats The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025
It’s the Kemi delusion: the more the Tories run towards Reform, the more their voters will run to the Lib Dems Part of the genius of UK Conservatism used to be how it responded to chaos using the balm of tradition. Secondhand Trumpism will only alienate its voters further, says Guardian columnist John Harris The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025
‘Bizarrely, I enjoyed bungee jumping!’ How Ed Davey became the Tom Cruise of British politics The Liberal Democrat leader’s summer of stunts ended in the party’s biggest electoral success ever – and managed to push social care up the agenda. His next project? Mastering TikTok The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024 Kemi Badenoch’s first task as Tory leader: say sorry to the people for her party’s failings The Conservatives will only be taken seriously when they are honest about their multiple mistakes in government
The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024 Geoffrey Cox missed winter fuel votes while working abroad in second job Lib Dems say ‘public deserve better’ after Tory MP and lawyer spent several days working in Mauritius in September
The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2024 Tory centrists refuse to back Jenrick or Badenoch as MPs leave them disenfranchised Tory members on the left of the party have started announcing they will boycott a leadership election with two right-wing candidates
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2024 Your Tory Party conference questions answered by John Rentoul – from the leadership contest to donations As the conference unfolds, our chief political commentator John Rentoul has been answering your burning questions on the leadership contest, the fallout from the election defeat, and more
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024 Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024 Labour, the Lib Dems and electoral reform Letters: Guardian readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece on how the two parties could work together
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024 The Lib Dems have prospered by swapping values for jet skis By abandoning its core principles, Ed Davey’s party has enjoyed its most fruitful election performance. But do we want opposition that doesn’t stand for anything?
The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024 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 17, 2024 The Guardian view on the Lib Dems’ ambitions: to become the main opposition in Britain Editorial: Sir Ed Davey is gambling that big ideas will give his party an advantage in the crisis-ridden and polarising conditions of the current era
The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2024 Ed Davey calls for taskforce to ‘winterproof the NHS’ in conference closing speech The Liberal Democrat leader used his conference speech to urge Sir Keir Starmer to ‘make this year the last winter crisis in our NHS’
The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2024 Keir Starmer and Ed Davey lead two different parties but face the same question: can the UK centre hold? There is a clear, mutual respect between the two men who must oppose each other on one level but have comparable objectives, says journalist and author Tom Baldwin