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Want to be elected in May? Start thinking about the Maxfield-Pack ratio now
The not-quite-modestly-named Maxfield-Pack ratio comes from 101 Ways To Win An Election, in which Ed and I explain:
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Tim Farron writes… “Help me to help the fight against homelessness”
This week is the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking BBC film Cathy Come Home, the gripping and controversial 1966 film about poverty and homelessness. It tells the story of Cathy and Reg, a…
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Brian Paddick writes on efforts to protect our civil liberties
On Wednesday the Investigatory Powers Bill overcame its final Parliamentary hurdle before becoming law. In the end the issue that held it up for a while was press regulation, not the powers of the…
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Liberal International’s African Reach
When Liberal International was founded in Oxford nearly 70 years ago it was very much a European affair. With the noble exception of Canada, Liberal parties and values were largely confined to…
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Why Lib Dem activists should read The Sun, Mail and Express
One of the most common myths amongst Liberal Democrat activists is that readers of the Daily Mail are all so awful that none of them can possibly be supporters of the party. However, as I pointed out…
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I'm taking this to Number 10
Thank you so much to the more than 6,000 (850 from High Peak) of you who have already signed our petition to Save our Services at Stepping Hill.
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Two-thirds of voters oppose a ‘blind-date Brexit’
Poll comes as MPs and peers threaten to oppose leaving EU unless Theresa May releases details of deal sought Only a third of UK voters support Brexit unconditionally, according to a poll that…
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What does Brexit mean? Once we know, the people must have a vote on it
The Lib Dems are clear: the government cannot negotiate in secret - it must tell the public the terms of the deal it strikes and hold a second referendum As leader of the Liberal Democrats, I have…
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EU citizenship?
Since the vote to leave the European Union back in June, many of my friends have suddenly developed a keen interest in their Irish ancestry. Others have already bagged a German passport, a Cypriot…
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“What part of ‘Leave’ don’t you understand?”
When Nigel Farage asked this of Gina Miller on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday she was far too polite and politically unseasoned to respond in kind to this patronising and arrogant question. Well, Mr…