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The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts sees me discuss with Steve Akehurst what has happened to Labour's July 2024 vote.
James McMurdock, Reform UK MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, has suspended himself after financial allegations were put to him.
Ahead of the next round of votes in the House of Lords on the Bill to remove hereditary peers, a new poll shows widespread public support for reform of the second chamber to go further. The poll, ...
Just a few weeks after being elected in a by-election for Reform UK, Owain Clatworthy contacted the Labour Party about joining them.
Matt Bunday, councillor for Swaythling ward and who was secretary of the Labour Party group on Southampton Council, has joined the Lib Dems.
New data is out from the annual British Social Attitudes survey: Support for electoral reform has reached a new high – A record 60% are in favour of changing the electoral system ‘to allow smaller ...
Below is the list of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates (formally Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, aka PPCs) for the next Westminster general election. If you’d like to help them, a ...
Here is a curio. Michael Ramage was elected in May as a councillor in County Durham as one of the Reform UK candidates. In other words, he is not a member of the official Reform group on the council ...
Congratulations to the following Liberal Democrats spotted in the 2025 King’s Birthday honours: Mike Cox, Lib Dem councilor and chair of our federal finance committee (FFRC) – CBE “for Political and ...
Jonathan Parry's book, Liberalism, explores the history of liberalism as a political idea in Britain. He came on my podcast to discuss it.
Adam Smith was elected as a Reform councillor for Hackleton and Roade on West Northamptonshire. But he is now listed as an independent.
Councillor Emma Sims (Broadway, Sedgeberrow & Childswickham ward, Wychavon Council) has left the Conservatives and joined the Lib Dems.