Results have been relatively quiet overnight. And there is a hiatus this morning until the next wave of results start after lunch. Most Councils are counting today, which makes sense from a human ...

I’m challenging myself with a prediction of how the local elections will pan out. Admittedly, I don’t quite have the time or energy to go through each ward of each council up for election in England ...

Ed Davey sounded a confident note with his close of poll statement: We are expecting to see big gains against the Conservatives in their former Middle England heartlands. Last year the Liberal ...

Our Party is working on strategy for the next Parliament and, I hope, beyond. A key part of business strategy is assessment of risk.  A major element in risk is competition – what will competitors do ...

I’ll start by thanking Hugh Andrew for his excellent LDV post from the 23rd April – ‘A thief in the night’, which I completely agree with. I’m old enough to remember the Napster file-sharing era when ...

The polls open in eight and a half hours. I hope that all the bundling is done and the Eve of Polls are out and all campaigners are tucked up in bed sleeping soundly ahead of an early start with the ...

Council tax is one of the most outdated and unfair taxes in the UK today — and yet it continues to underpin the finances of every local authority in the country. The system we use now was introduced ...

Thank you and good luck Due to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May’s elections is our best ...

If you do nothing else in the next couple of days, please try and help Mike Ross become Mayor in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ed Davey has done his bit by visiting the Beats Bus in Hull ...

Mark Carney and the Canadian Liberals have won an extraordinary victory which seemed impossible a few months ago. In hispowerful victory speech in English and French, he said that he would be guided ...

How do we apply Liberalism in day-to-day politics?  A thoughtful new book, When We Speak of Freedom, edited by Paul Hindley and Benjamin Wood, deserves more discussion here. The subtitle is ‘Radical ...

The welfare cuts – which according to charities are bigger than the Tories’ – are set to impact 15,000 disabled households here in Southwark alone, costing most thousands of pounds a year. That is not ...