Welcome to Lib Dem Newswire #212, which expands on why the Liberal Democrats should aim to be the largest party in local ...

Five principal authority council by-elections this week, including Labour's first gains of the Andy Burnham era.

After messing around with football / broadening our cultural frames of reference (delete according to which one of us you agree with), it’s back to hard core politics this time around with a classic ...

Plans to merge Portsmouth with Fareham, Gosport and Havant councils have prompted a Labour councillor to defect to the Liberal Democrats … Cllr Rajah Ghosh, who represents Charles Dickens ward on ...

I am absolutely delighted that Julia, Hannah, Tim, Dave and Mark will be joining our brilliant Liberal Democrat team in the House of Lords. Each of them has the right skills, experience and values to ...

Hannah Kitching is a former NHS physiotherapist who has been Mayor of Penistone and Leader of the Opposition on Barnsley Council. She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2026.

Dave McCobb was the Liberal Democrat Director of Campaigns for the party’s breakthrough 2024 general election campaign. He has also been a councillor in Hull and was appointed to the House of Lords in ...

* indicates a figure with slightly different fieldwork dates from the rest of the row. Wording used – BMG: satisfied/dissatisfied, Deltapoll: well/badly, Find Out Now: well/badly, Freshwater: ...

Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors elected under the Reform banner on ...

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 ...

If there’s an opinion poll published by YouGov with figures that do not look great for Labour or the left in general, it often triggers comments on social media about how YouGov shouldn’t be trusted ...