Hollywood actor Hugh Grant has taken to the campaign trail, fighting against the pro-sovereignty Brexit movement, supporting the Liberal Democrats and the anti-Brexit Tory defector Dominic Grieve.
The Liberal Democrats have reportedly backed down on campaigning to cancel Brexit amidst negative reactions from voters on the doorstep and a drop in the polls.
The Liberal Democrats have branded the vote to leave the EU, one of the largest expressions of democratic will in British political history, a “national humiliation”.
A poll has revealed that British voters dislike Jo Swinson, the leader of the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats, more now than when she became party leader.
Fringe parties Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Welsh separatist Plaid Cymru have agreed to an election pact where one of the pro-Remain parties will be given a clear run in 60 seats they hope to turn anti-Brexit.
The leaders of the Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Plaid Cymru are reportedly close to agreeing to a Remain Alliance. The alliance seeks to swing up to 60 seats across the country to a Remain-backing vote.
Britain’s members of Parliament have voted for the nation to have a snap general election, its third in less than five years, on December 12th. The vote on Tuesday night was the fourth opportunity put before Parliament to approve a snap
LONDON (AP) – Two British opposition parties on Sunday proposed an even earlier election date than Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered, trying to force his government to delay a final decision on its European Union divorce deal.
A Liberal Democrat candidate has compared Brexit to Nazi Germany in the latest embarrassment for the pro-EU party.
Nigel Farage has branded a Liberal Democrat MEP a “patronising, stuck-up snob” after she said Leavers “didn’t know what they were voting on” in the 2016 referendum.
Vince Cable MP has claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson would suspend the rule of law to deliver a clean-break Brexit on October 31st.
Anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, urging him not to do a Brexit deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson — as they believe they can still stop it from happening.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised senior Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt for praising the new “world order” of “empires”, but said it was time to be straight about Brussels’ intentions to build a new European Empire.
London’s left-wing mayor Sadiq Khan has said the Labour Party should back revoking Article 50, cancelling Brexit.
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s representative in the Brexit talks, was cheered at the Liberal Democrats party conference as he hailed the end of the age of nation-states, and a new “world order” of “empires”.
Reports have revealed that the Labour Party is planning to vote down the Queen’s speech next month and attempt to topple the Conservative government with a confidence vote, whilst the rabidly pro-Remain Liberal Democrats plan to rally behind revoking Article 50, cancelling Brexit altogether.
The UK’s governing Conservative Party have had their parliamentary majority reduced to just one seat after losing at a special election to the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats, supported by two other small parties who did not run candidates to give them a better chance of success.
Britain’s Liberal Democrat party elected a new leader Monday, with the successful candidate using her first messages to party members to promise that she would be doing everything in her power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union.
A Rochdale councillor from the staunchly pro-EU Liberal Democrats has defected to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.
Britain’s political parties will soon be fighting another by-election (special election) after Welsh Conservative Chris Davies was unseated by his own constituents in a recall petition, the second successful use of the removal mechanism ever. Chris Davies, who represented the
Chuka Umunna has joined his third political party of the year, as he defected to the Liberal Democrats Thursday night.
A new Westminster Parliament opinion poll has shown a massive shift in British political attitudes, with neither of the legacy parties leading and the Brexit and Liberal Democrats parties lead the pack.
The stunning victory of the Brexit Party in Britain’s elections for the European Parliament are also a massive win for President Donald Trump — and a warning to the American political establishment about the potential political cost of undermining the agenda on which Trump was elected.
Change UK (CUK) and the Liberal Democrats could make an electoral pact so as to avoid splitting the anti-Brexit in the next Westminster election.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has gone head-to-head with stop-Brexit politician Vince Cable in the only broadcast debate in the run-up to Thursday’s European Parliament election, and appealed to voters who backed both leave and remain previously to vote for his party to help strengthen British democracy.
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s abrasive representative in the Brexit negotiations, has denied he is interfering in Britain’s elections by campaigning with the Liberal Democrats, who want to overturn the EU referendum result.
The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats, Green Party, and Change UK (CUK) parties are at each other’s throats ahead of the Peterborough by-election, with plans to back a single “Remain” candidate falling apart.
The leader of the hardline pro-Remain Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, has revealed the party’s European Parliament elections campaign slogan as “B*ll*cks to Brexit.”
The establishment parties have taken major losses in local elections in England, with both the Conservatives and Labour losing council seats while the Liberal Democrats and independents have gained seats in the hundreds.
The Brexit Party is gaining ground in national election voting intentions, coming third behind Labour and the Tories and ahead of establishment Remainer party the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran used the passing of her former party leader Paddy Ashdown as an opportunity to make an anti-Brexit point.
Asserting that “every person is precious”, the Church of England has urged Britain to welcome the boatloads of illegal migrants crossing the Channel.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Liberal Democrat party has announced the death of former leader Paddy Ashdown after a short illness. He was 77.
Former Lib Dem peer Baroness Jenny Tonge claimed Israel is to blame for a resurgence in anti-Jewish hatred, in a social media post made just hours after Robert Bowers allegedly killed 11 people in Saturday’s Pittsburgh synagogue attack.
Sir Nick Clegg, the left-wing former Deputy Prime Minister hired as vice-president of global affairs and communications by Facebook, has a long history public controversy, and has previously had harsh words for his new paymasters.
Three formerly key players in British politics have joined forces to further calls for a second referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union, widely seen by Leavers as a ploy to prevent Brexit happening at all, while a former PM accused Brexit voters of having been deceived.
Meat killed according to Islamic sharia law, in a method considered cruel by all major animal rights groups, “should be labelled in shops”, a Liberal Democrats peer has said.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable faced humiliation in Brussels after showing up for the EU summit claiming eight European leaders were backing his call for another vote on Brexit — when in fact none of them did.
Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has claimed “white nostalgia” and older voters longing for a time when “faces were white” drove the Brexit vote.
Voters find the main political parties positions on Brexit unclear, according to a new poll conducted for the Left Foot Forward political blog. The general public were left “in the dark” on the subject of their political representatives on Brexit,
