The new annual report of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK Poverty 2026,  makes disturbing reading. Poverty was suffered by 21% of the population in 2023-4, more than 14 million people: the rate of ...

Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith has voiced concerns over what he describes as "quite extremist" policies enacted by Liberal Democrats in councils under their control, citing the promotion of ...

A campaigning "patriotic millionaire" has urged the Liberal Democrats to get behind a new wealth tax, as the party debates how to position itself on the economy. Mark Robinson, who joked to activists ...

"How do you excite people about moderate positions?" “In the clamour of politics in 2025” that is the “quandary” facing the Liberal Democrats, said Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. Leader Ed Davey’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Nigel Farage kicked off the party conference season for Reform in Birmingham, he joked to party members: “It’s not all about ...

Scottish Lib Dems write to moderate Tory voters as polling suggests the party could overtake the Conservatives at May’s election.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness, who has died aged 71, was a popular Liberal Democrat who served in coalitions with Labour at Holyrood – as Deputy First Minister – and with the Conservatives at Westminster ...