COLUMN: What are we doing?
The party seems rudderless at the national level, floating around without any real direction. What are we doing?
The one thing conservatives just don’t understand
Our out of touch conservative elites need to stop living in their online bubbles and talk to real, mostly liberal voters. In the United States, an outright majority of people have just voted for President-elect Joe Biden, rejecting the conservative populism of Donald Trump. But what is even more interesting is that when looking at economic class, the only constituency of Trump-supporting voters was those in the economic elite, earning…
LAYLA MORAN: How I will beat the Conservatives and win again
My focus is on persuading moderate Conservatives, building a broad base of support, and winning our marginals at the next general election. Winning again My primary objective as Leader of the Liberal Democrats is to get the party winning again, at every level and in every part of the country. Overwhelmingly, our marginal seats are Conservative-facing. That is why my plan is focused on persuading moderate Conservatives to support our…
Labour MP breached expenses rules in campaign against Lib Dems
Daniel Zeichner, the Labour MP for Cambridge, has been found to have breached rules surrounding MPs’ expenses by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, by misusing Parliamentary stationery as part of his party political campaigning. Zeichner, whose majority was shrunk by the second-placed Liberal Democrats in 2019, has been issued a rebuke by Parliament, and has had to pay back several hundred pounds. The Commissioner found that in 2019, Zeichner sent…
Tories exploit tragic death of beloved councillor for party political gain
The Conservative Party in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) has tonight been accused of “disgusting moral failings” as it set in motion plans to exploit the tragic death of a beloved councillor in a cynical attempt to wrest control away from the present Liberal Democrat-led progressive coalition administration. BCP Council has been governed by an alliance of progressive parties since May 2019, but the death of independent councillor Colin Bungey…
Lib Dems support fall of Colston; Labour equivocate
All three candidates in the Lib Dem leadership race have come out in support of the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol yesterday, lending their support to the Black Lives Matter movement. Layla Moran tweeted that statues of slave merchants shouldn’t still be standing, while also putting her words into action, sending a letter to the Government calling on them to expedite the process of…
LAYLA MORAN: Putting members’ ideas into action
After months of waiting, the Government finally launched its Test and Trace scheme this week to much fanfare. Since then there have been several well-publicised issues with the programme including IT problems, contact tracers not having any work and the delayed launch of the app it relies on. But aside from these serious teething problems, the scheme faces another fundamental issue that urgently needs to be addressed. Those being asked…
Key debates: what to look out for in the Lib Dem leadership race
With the Liberal Democrats having announced that their leadership election will start next month, this article will detail what to look out for with some of the key debates currently going on in the party, and where the dividing lines could be drawn between members and candidates alike. Pro-Coalition vs anti-Coalition Attitudes towards the 2010-2015 Coalition with the Conservatives have remained one of the dominant discussion points within the Liberal…
Johnson announces he views frontline heroes as cash cows
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has today openly confirmed that he views care workers and other frontline heroes as mere cash cows. Answering a question about the Tory plans to charge migrant care workers and NHS staff over £600 just to be able to use the very same NHS they work for, Johnson admitted that he viewed them as simply a source of revenue, saying “those contributions help us raise £900million”…
Labour grandee refuses to oppose restrictions on migrant care workers
The Conservative government and a senior member of the Labour Party have tonight voiced their support for moving the Immigration Bill onto its next stage in Parliament. The Bill, put forward by wildly unpopular Home Secretary Priti Patel, would effectively ban unskilled migrants earning less than £25,600 from coming to the UK – which could stop foreign care workers, refuse workers and vegetable pickers who have shown their heroics during…