Two Lib Dem MPs rebel over VAT
The Guardian: The coalition faced its first rebellion last night when two Liberal Democrat MPs voted against a budget proposal to increase VAT to 20%. Bob Russell and Mike Hancock voted with Labour to...
View ArticleNick Clegg wins Spectator’s Politician of the Year
The Spectator’s annual Parliamentarian of the Year Awards ceremony took place last night. Nick Clegg was named as the magazine’s Politician of the Year, while Danny Alexander and George Osborne were...
View ArticleWhat The Spectator says: ‘Obama the Lib Dem’. (PS: It may even be a compliment.)
Over at The Spectator, Jonathan Jones looks at the US and UK approaches to their forthcoming budgets — cutting the deficit, taming debt, etc — and his fourth and final point concludes: Obama the Lib...
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Reasons for Lib Dem cheer — as told by Labour and Tory supporters
Just two things from me: 1) Anyone trying to forecast how the Lib Dems will do in 2015 based on extrapolating mid-term opinion polls on the basis of uniform national swing is likely to be as wrong as...
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4 graphs on Thatcher’s legacy: a richer but more unequal nation.
A generation on, the Thatcher legacy continues to provoke and divide. One of the questions it poses for liberals is one this government is still wrestling with: does inequality matter if everyone’s...
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A personal guide to the 13 most essential political podcasts
Commuting is a major part of my daily life, so I find podcasts are an essential way to make use of time I’d otherwise spend staring vacantly out the window or idly refreshing and re-refreshing Twitter....
View ArticleBetter in Cameron’s Black Book than on the Statute Book
“The Lib Dems have held us back, says Cameron” screams today’s Daily Mail headline. Yes, it’s the Prime Minister showing that he can play the differentiation game too. If there’s one thing that David...
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LibLink: Jeremy Browne – The Lib Dems must define themselves more clearly
Former Lib Dem minister, Jeremy Browne, fresh from publishing a book calling for the party to return to ‘authentic liberalism’, has issued a further plea in The Spectator for Lib Dems to get...
View ArticleVince Cable and Danny Alexander to be confirmed as Election Spokesmen for...
View image | gettyimages.com Exclusive, Vince Cable will lose his economy job with the Lib Dems tomorrow screams the Spectator headline. In fact, this is the second biggest surprise since the sun...
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