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Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition’s policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students. Is he right?
The Liberal Democrats’ appeal to the centre is mature and logical, but it’s hard to see whose votes it could possibly win.
After the 2010 election, the coalition promptly ordered a huge review of the EU. Then it spent years ignoring the findings.
Channel 4’s dramatisation of the five days in May 2010 when the Coalition was formed is almost revolutionarily empathetic with our political leaders.
There’s not much to be gained for major party leaders, but small parties have all to play for.
Even if Nick Clegg survives the election, he may not survive the Lib Dem bloodletting that’s sure to ensue.
The debate shambles has reached its climax and guess who drew the short straw.
Party membership has long been declining across the political spectrum, but it’s hitting the Lib Dems hardest.
Nick Clegg reckons Britain could have gone the way of its struggling European neighbour but for the coalition’s cuts. But does the claim stand up?
The Lib Dems may have upset the status quo, but there’s no such thing as three-party politics.
Common sense tells us that an election debate comes with dangers for the incumbent, but that’s no excuse not to participate.
A grand coalition would look more like a Gothic horror story than a Disney fairy tale.
Polling at 8% two months before polling day hardly bodes well – can the Lib Dems stop the bleeding?
Do David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg realise that they have signed up to a drastic and global reduction in emissions?
As it becomes clear that a hung parliament is the most likely outcome of the May 7 UK general election, Liberal Democrat MPs are going into preparation mode. The party may end up with the worst electoral…
It has been reported that former Liberal Democrat peer Matthew Oakeshott has donated £600,000 to left-leaning parliamentary hopefuls in the quest to stave off a Conservative victory in the election. Oakeshott…
The UK’s smaller political parties have been showered with attention of late. We’ve seen Green Party leader Natalie Bennett interviewed on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show – one of the most coveted media platforms…
Ed Miliband has admitted that Labour is “on a journey” when it comes to immigration. He has promised that his party “will never again turn our backs on people who are worried about immigration” but also…
As prime minister David Cameron works on the finishing touches of his much-awaited speech on Europe and immigration he is under considerable pressure from his backbenchers and some frontbenchers to signal…
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