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,
Britain’s elections watchdog has imposed big fines on the EU referendum’s official Remain campaign and on the Liberal Democrats, for filing inaccurate and incomplete spending returns.
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called for the state visit by President Donald Trump to be cancelled and for the United Kingdom to hold a second referendum on membership of the European Union.
Anti-Brexit protesters have descended on the nation’s capital clad in blue and yellow and bearing EU flags to voice their objection to the United Kingdom’s largest ever political mandate, calling on politicians to “unite, rethink, and reject Brexit”.
Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Sir Vince Cable has revealed he is holding informal talks with Tory Remainers to force the Government into a so-called ‘Soft Brexit’.
Surveys of teachers’ voting intentions prior to the general election indicate the Left dominates the British education system.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who faced repeated questioning over his Christian faith during his tenure and in the lead-up to the general election, has quit his post, implying leading a Christian life is not possible in Britain’s present political climate.
Tim Farron’s Liberal Democrats have released its general election manifesto, pledging to hold a second EU referendum, scrap the marriage allowance, legalise cannabis, and implement policies which will increase immigration.
The Liberal Democrats have committed to taking in an extra 50,000 migrants from Syria by 2020 at an estimated cost of £4.3 billion.
An adviser on tactical voting said to have helped swing the Canadian elections for the left wing Liberal Party is advising Gina Miller’s campaign to elect candidates with an “open mind” on Brexit. The British Guiana-born financier’s Best for Britain
Two Liberal Democrat candidates have been forced to withdraw their candidacy for the UK’s upcoming general election after they were found to be “unfit to represent the party” because of past anti-Semitic comments.
Tim Farron, leader of the left wing Liberal Democrats, has been branded a “bigot” by celebrities and angry social media users after refusing to say gay sex is not a sin.
MPs in the Liberal Democrats, which has a record for requesting the government be soft on returning jihadis, have written urging the Home Secretary to revoke Asma al-Assad’s British citizenship.
A taxpayer-funded charity allowed an Islamic extremist to speak alongside the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that Parliament must be consulted on triggering Article 50 has prompted an avalanche of comment as the main political players vie to steer the process to their advantage. In the Commons, the minister for exiting the
The House of Commons is set for a showdown this evening, as the government has forced a vote indicating that Parliament supports the invoking of Article 50 by the end of March.
LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party said on Friday his lawmakers would vote against triggering the formal process of leaving the European Union unless the government promises to hold a second referendum.
The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, has joined his successor in calling for a general election before the British exit from the European Union (EU), potentially to allow the result of the referendum on British membership to
The Liberal Democrat party has pledged to ignore the Brexit vote as part of their next general election campaign, positioning themselves as the party of the “48 per cent” who voted to remain inside the European Union (EU). “Nigel Farage’s
The Jerusalem Post reports: Liberal Democrats, the group for whom US Senator Bernie Sanders is the most appealing candidate in the current presidential race, sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to a Pew Poll released on Thursday.
Nick Clegg, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, has the worst voting record in the House of Commons, new analysis has revealed, having failed to show up to more than 85 percent of votes since the last election in
The European Parliament’s tax payer funded liberal group is hosting their annual congress in the Hungarian capital with the express intention of destabilising the democratically elected right-wing government. Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a “dictator” and “the problem
Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Norman Lamb has told his party conference that they should seek to introduce a new, separate NHS tax which would be itemised on workers’ payslips. Overall taxes would not increase as the levy would be
One news event that may have passed most people by last week was the election of Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democrats. The party, which was once Britain’s third largest, was decimated in May’s General Election, losing all
If you genuinely believe that the Labour and Liberal Democrats will stop at local elections in their bid to lowering the voting age in Great Britain… you’re an idiot. The two parties joined forces for their respective, but mutually beneficial ‘hashtag fightback‘
Dr. Alveda King writes that liberal race-baiting serves only to create unrest as it overlooks – for the purpose of maintaining a mindset of victimization — the true nature of African Americans, who have survived overwhelming oppression “from first slavery and then segregation and racism.”
The post-mortem on former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has revealed he died of a “major haemorrhage” linked to alcoholism. In a statement, Mr Kennedy’s family said the report “makes clear this was a consequence of his battle with alcoholism.”
Ed Balls Losing His Seat Those of us on the right have waited nigh-on twenty years for our own “Portillo Moment” and here at last it was. Payback too, of course, for all the damage Balls inflicted on the UK
As the co-founder and chairman of the Quilliam Foundation, the UK’s leading anti-extremism think tank, Maajid Nawaz has advised three successive British governments on how to prevent young people turning to radical Islam and terrorism. Currently the Liberal Democrat candidate for
Nick Clegg is ready to do a deal with anyone. He has told supporters that no party will win the election outright and the Liberal Democrats would offer “a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour
