Liberal Democrats News, Policies & Vince Cable Updates

LIB DEM 2017 NEWS, POLICIES AND VINCE CABLE UPDATES

My party now loves the EU more than its working class voters - I want my money back! Former Labour MP AUSTIN MITCHELL reveals his fury at Labour's Brexit U-turn

11/07/19 08:54

AUSTIN MITCHELL: Hopefully I won't be expelled for saying this, but after 60 years of being a member of the Labour Party I'm beginning to wonder whether I should ask for my money back. My party is so busy trying to shed its working-class supporters and become a metropolitan team of amateur Liberal Democrats that it's no longer recognisable....read

The ice-picks are out for Corbyn's sidekicks…and he's next: DAN HODGES on how the Labour leader's friends have turned on him after running out of patience

07/07/19 09:26

DAN HODGES: 'The ice-picks are being sharpened,' a Shadow Minister tells me. 'The moderates aren't the ones who are going to move against Jeremy. It's going to be the Corbynites.'

Lord Ashdown leaves £1,500 in his will for a party in his own memory…and former Lib Dem leader also asked for his wife to be buried with him when she dies

07/07/19 01:58

Paddy Ashdown, from Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset died aged 77 in December. He left the bulk of his net estate of £370,573 in trust for his wife Jane and children Kate and Simon.

PETER HITCHENS: Conservative values? They are vanishing in a cloud of cannabis smoke

30/06/19 18:36

PETER HITCHENS: Fools and dupes are beguiled by heartbreak stories about how this terrible drug is a miracle cure for all kinds of ills - PR propaganda carefully designed to change its image.

193 shares PETER HITCHENS: Conservative values are vanishing in a smoke cloud

More than half of MPs claim free BBC licence at taxpayers' expense - even though 3.7m pensioners will soon have to pay for one

24/06/19 21:03

More than half of MPs have charged taxpayers for a TV licence since 2010. Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and Scottish National Party's Ian Blackford have claimed.

ANDREW PIERCE: Election 'practice' that was perfect for Jeremy Hunt

24/06/19 08:16

ANDREW PIERCE: As one opinion poll now puts Jeremy Hunt narrowly ahead of Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership race, the Foreign Secretary said it's not the first time he's been the underdog.

Frontrunner for Lib Dem leadership is accused of 'smearing the country' after branding the UK 'racist'

23/06/19 21:57

Jo Swinson, the favourite to succeed Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem party boss, was accused of smearing the entire nation with her 'absurd' remark.

Tube passenger says she was racially abused by two 'vile' men who 'refused to believe she was British or educated'

22/06/19 11:56

Coun Julia Ogiehor, who represents Muswell Hill on Haringey local authority, claims that the two unknown passengers questioned her nationality and called her uneducated.

Labour and the Tories continue to LOSE voters as Nigel Farage's Brexit Party holds steady in a new poll with the Remainer Liberal Democrats surging into second place

14/06/19 17:58

Nigel Farage's infant outfit remains the best-backed party ahead of the next election with more than a quarter (26 per cent) of voters supporting it, according to analysis by YouGov.

Ex-Labour and Change UK MP Chuka Umunna REFUSES to stand in a by-election after joining the Lib Dems saying his pro-Remain voters 'don't have a problem with what I'm doing'

14/06/19 15:51

The former shadow business secretary quit Labour in February this year to join the new Independent group, which became Change UK ahead of the European elections last month.

BLACK DOG: Boris Johnson can be relieved his new 'policy tsar' Liz Truss has ditched her less Tory friendly policy of scrapping Trident

09/06/19 01:58

BLACK DOG: As Boris Johnson revs up his campaign for No 10, he can be relieved his new 'policy tsar' Liz Truss has ditched one of her less Tory-friendly policy options - scrapping Trident.

Rebel MP Chuka Umunna to continue his battle against Brexit by standing for the Liberal Democrats in his safe Labour South London constituency

09/06/19 01:19

Sources say Mr Umunna will seek to capitalise on his Streatham constituency's massive vote for Remain in order to overturn his own 26,000-plus majority after leaving the Labour party this year.

PETER OBORNE: Has Boris Johnson's high wire strategy for Brexit just got trickier after the defeat of Nigel Farage's party in the Peterborough election?

08/06/19 09:52

PETER OBORNE: Not for the first time, the pundits were proved hopelessly wrong. They predicted Thursday's by-election in Peterborough would be a coronation for Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

Change UK IMPLODES after half its Remainer MPs quit in row over dire European election results and whether to merge with the Lib Dems

04/06/19 16:27

Leader Heidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston, Chuka Umunna, Gavin Shuker, Angela Smith and Luciana Berger have all walked out of the fledgling movement.

Lib Dem leadership candidate Jo Swinson says she and her colleagues should have stopped the 'bedroom tax' when they were in coalition with the Tories but insists her party 'did a lot of good'

02/06/19 15:09

Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson defended the five years her party spent as junior partners in David Cameron's government. Ms Swinson said there was a need to 'constrain spending.'

Nigel Farage hails 'historic' new poll which shows the Brexit Party leading NATIONALLY in a General Election for the first time and could give him 306 MPS - just 20 short of a majority

02/06/19 11:21

An Opinium poll has Nigel Farage's Brexit Party on top with 26 per cent of the vote, ahead of Labour on 22 per cent, marking the first time the new party had topped a national poll.

The Blairs’ Lib-Dem love-in continues? Ex-Labour PM Tony Blair’s eldest son poses for selfie with deputy leader Jo Swinson – days after his mother ‘voted Liberal Democrat in the EU elections’

31/05/19 18:32

Tony Blair's son eldest son posed for a selfie with the Liberal Democrats deputy leader today as he became the latest figure with links to New Labour to back the resurgent Remainer party.

Farage hits out at bombshell poll showing LIB DEMS ahead of the Brexit Party, Tories and Labour: MEP says the YouGov survey skewed the results by 'hiding' his party from voters

31/05/19 17:07

Nigel Farage fumed that his party was 'hidden' from voters in the shock survey, which put it in second place - although still ahead of the Tories and Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn's WIFE piles into Labour civil war sparked by Alastair Campbell's expulsion for voting Lib Dem and crows: 'The man who supported the illegal war in Iraq has gone!'

31/05/19 16:00

Laura Alvarez revelled after Tony Blair's former spin doctor was thrown out of the party for voting Lib Dem in the European elections under a Facebook post titled: 'Good riddance'.

Labour civil war escalates as Alastair Campbell claims even Corbyn's close ally John McDonnell thinks kicking him out of the party for voting Lib Dem is 'bonkers'

31/05/19 13:11

Former No10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell said John McDonnell and Keir Starmer had told him the decision to eject him for voting Lib Dem at the EU election should be reviewed.

Len McCluskey tells Corbyn it would be ‘electoral suicide’ to back a second referendum and copying the anti-Brexit Lib Dems will only 'pump poison' into British politics

31/05/19 12:19

The Unite general secretary urged Jeremy Corbyn to ignore 'Remain zealots' after 'pointless' European elections because the party would lose dozens of MPs in the north and Midlands.

Poll bombshell for Tories and Labour: 'Main parties' slip to joint THIRD on 19% behind Lib Dems and Brexit Party in shock opinion survey after EU vote humiliation

31/05/19 02:06

A survey of how Britons might vote in a general election was set to show the main political parties in joint third place – behind the pro-Remain Lib Dems and Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.

Cherie Blair 'voted Lib Dem' in Euro elections: Ex-PM's wife joins revolt against Labour for expelling Alastair Campbell as party admits it will review the decision

30/05/19 14:11

Sources close to Cherie Blair made clear she did not support Labour in the polls last week - amid claims she too backed the Lib Dems.

Tory grandee Lord Heseltine warns the party not to ape Nigel Farage, saying the Conservative leadership race fills him with dread as he fears they will compete to be most like the Brexiteer

30/05/19 07:15

The lifelong pro-EU Tory says that there will be an arms race between those competing for leadership of the Conservatives in which candidates will compete to be the most like Nigel Farage.

The Tories 'have been infected by virus of extremism' warns Michael Heseltine as he vows to vote Lib Dem in Euro elections - as polls show Farage is set to give May a drubbing and Boris is on his way to be next PM

30/05/19 02:05

The former deputy prime minister, 86, outlined his support for Bill Newton Dunn in his constituency in Northamptonshire.

Stench of hypocrisy over the real Labour villains: Alistair Campbell has been expelled, but Jeremy Corbyn's party is still harbouring members who have allegedly bullied women, denied the Holocaust, and accused Israel of genocide, writes ANDREW PIERCE

30/05/19 00:01

ANDREW PIERCE: Although Alastair Campbell, spin doctor to Tony Blair, was expelled from the Labour Party just hours after saying he had voted Lib Dem, other members were not.

Go on Jez, #expelmetoo! Labour in open civil war as Tom Watson calls Corbyn's expulsion of Alastair Campbell for voting Lib Dem 'spiteful' and former ministers dare the leader to boot them out too

29/05/19 19:14

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson says there should be no sanction for members who backed another party last Thursday and said: 'We should be listening rather than punishing them'.

Hundreds join Lord Ashdown's widow for a public memorial service to honour 'man of duty' ex-Liberal Democrat leader who died of cancer aged 77

29/05/19 16:11

Family, friends and colleagues at St John's Family Church in Yeovil, Somerset and was hailed a 'fighter, a battler and an optimist' who believed in 'pulling down the walls and barriers that divide us.'

Our United Kingdom is under threat if the new Tory leader can't take on the SNP, writes STEPHEN DAISLEY

29/05/19 09:43

Just five years ago, after a bitterly divisive campaign and in what the SNP promised would be a ‘once-in-a-generation’ event, the Scots rejected independence 55 per cent to 45 per cent.

'They took longer to throw out the man who threatened to kill me': MP's outrage as Jeremy Corbyn axes former spin doctor within days of him voting Lib Dem while anti-Semitism was left to fester for years

28/05/19 23:24

Tony Blair's right-hand man at Westminster said he had cast his votes for the Liberal Democrats at the European elections last Thursday our of disgust for Labour's stance on Brexit.

'To all the MPs who told me they were not voting Labour, your secrets are safe with me': 'Lifelong' Labour member Alastair Campbell hits back with veiled threat as he is expelled from party for voting Lib Dem at EU elections

28/05/19 23:20

Tony Blair's right-hand man at Westminster said he had cast his votes for the Liberal Democrats at the European elections last Thursday our of disgust for Labour's stance on Brexit.

Tory leadership hopeful Matt Hancock says it is 'mission critical' to deliver Brexit: Farage calls the shots in race to succeed Theresa May as candidates line up to back No Deal after election mauling

28/05/19 10:17

The Health Secretary said the party was under attack 'on two sides' as Nigel Farage humiliated the party in the UK poll while Conservative candidates also lost out to the pro-Europe Liberal Democrats.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Without radical changes the two great parties that have defined our politics are heading for oblivion

28/05/19 08:15

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: As the first results of the European elections began flooding in, I was reminded of one of the most famous headlines of the past half-century - 'Absolute chaos tonight: official'.

Big Brother is watching your bins: Why the authorities want to monitor your rubbish to find out exactly what you’re throwing away

28/05/19 01:40

Bassendean councillors will meet on Tuesday evening to discuss the new recording system, which could start as early as July - but not everyone has welcomed the trial.

Vince Cable warns he will try to block a No Deal Brexit which would see the UK wander into a global trade 'battlefield' between US and China after Lib Dems beat both the Tories and Labour for the first time in 100 years

27/05/19 22:50

He took a swipe at those who have advocated a No Deal Brexit after his party came second behind the Brexit Party in the European vote, winning 14 seats to add to the one they held before Thursday.

Tories obliterated by tide of Brexit Party turquoise: Map shows the scale of Nigel Farage's political earthquake in EU elections as the public hammers the Conservatives and Labour

27/05/19 10:21

Nigel Farage's insurgents dominated across England and Wales, evicting the main parties from key strongholds in the South East and London.

Change UK leader Heidi Allen threatened to quit amid party row over whether to endorse Lib Dems in Euro elections

23/05/19 01:44

Heidi Allen wanted Remain supporters to vote tactically for the Lib Dems outside of London and the South East, but was overruled.

It's the election that Theresa May said would never happen... but how does the vote for the European Parliament work and what will it mean for you?

22/05/19 17:16

Labour and the Brexit Party were also adamant that the UK should have cut ties with the EU by now. But because of the Article 50 extension, the government has been forced to proceed.

The Tories suspend a SECOND peer after he follows Michael Heseltine in backing the Lib Dems in the Euro elections - as an ex-Eastenders actor turned Labour lord says he will too

22/05/19 16:16

Lord Cooper, who was David Cameron's director of strategy, joined Michael Heseltine in backing Sir Vince Cable's revitalised outfit in protest at the Government's Brexit policy.

Donald Tusk told to keep his 'nose out' and stop 'meddling in our democracy' by furious voters after he urges Britons to back Change UK in the European elections to keep 'the UK in the EU'

22/05/19 11:00

The EU Council President, who said there is a 'special place in hell' reserved for people who promoted Brexit without a plan, backed Jan Rostowski claiming he would make a 'great MEP for London'.

Lib Dem love in! Sir Danny Alexander joins Nick Clegg for a photo with 'old pal' George Osborne - sparking complaints the ex-Treasury minister is 'hurting' his party's chances in the EU elections

21/05/19 08:18

Sir Danny Alexander tweeted the photograph of himself alongside his ‘old friends’, the Tory ex-chancellor and former Lib Dem leader Sir Nick Clegg.

Ex-Tory Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, 86, has the party whip suspended after saying he would vote Lib Dem in Thursday’s Euro elections as the Conservatives are ‘infected by the virus of extremism’

20/05/19 20:00

Former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine has had the Tory whip suspended after saying he would vote Liberal Democrat at the European elections.

Farage blasts BBC over lack of Brexit Party coverage as Question Time episode fails to feature one of its candidates despite it LEADING the polls just days before the European elections

17/05/19 19:27

The episode, filmed in the Scottish town of Elgin, featured a panel predominantly from the country including Tories, Labour, the SNP and the Lib Dems plus a Brexiteer lawyer.

Theresa May on track for the worst General Election result in Tory Party history - as Brexit Party is predicted to win more votes than Labour and Conservatives COMBINED in European elections, polls say

17/05/19 15:37

Nigel Farage's new party is slated to win 34% of the vote in European elections - compared to just 21% for Labour and 11% for the Conservatives.

Top TIG quits just 12 weeks after the party started: No 1 candidate in Scotland joins the Lib Dems in another new blow for Change UK

15/05/19 11:25

David Macdonald left Britain's new remain party with just eight days until the European elections on May 23 with Change UK's co-founder Chuka Umuna declaring: 'He has let down his fellow candidates'.

Lib Dems drop probe into Lord Steel over his failure to take action against paedophile Cyril Smith in the 1970s

14/05/19 16:16

Lord Steel had been suspended after a conversation with Cyril Smith (pictured together) had left him 'assuming' child sex allegations were correct, but that it was 'nothing to do' with him.

ANDREW PIERCE: Red faces for the Lib Dems as constituency chairman defects to the Brexit Party

14/05/19 13:40

Sir Ed Davey MP, who’s one of the party’s most ubiquitous anti-Brexit voices in the media, has been hit by an embarrassing setback, leaving Vince Cable (pictured) red-faced.

Nigel Farage says it’s his 'duty’ to stand as MP at the next general election as he campaigns in a Labour heartland where 70 per cent of voters backed LEAVE and warns Corbyn's party is 'vulnerable'

13/05/19 16:59

The Brexit Party leader (pictured today) also admitted he would be willing to prop up the next Conservative leader to make them Prime Minister - but only if they agree to leave the EU with No Deal.

EU Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt says Nigel Farage would 'rather go to the pub than fight for British interests' and tells Brit voters it would be 'insane' to back him in Euro elections

12/05/19 17:27

Former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt tweeted his advice to British voters today as the Brexit Party took a massive poll lead. He has a history of holding forth about British politics on social media.

DAN HODGES: The truth is that Campbell and Company’s noisy campaign for the People’s Vote is just a front for Corbyn

12/05/19 08:49

DAN HODGES: The People’s Vote campaign can stop pretending now. For months they’ve peddled the fiction that their role was to secure a second referendum.

Lib Dem leader Vince Cable claims the Government is secretly planning to hold a second Brexit referendum

11/05/19 12:30

The Twickenham MP said he left a Thursday morning meeting with Lidington and fellow remainer Heidi Allen feeling sure that there are secret plans in Westminster to have another Brexit vote.

'I'm a Lib Dem' says top Brussels Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt as he joins leader Vince Cable to campaign for the European elections - and predicts 'huge support for Remain'

10/05/19 15:52

The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, a vocal critic of Brexit, joined leader Sir Vince Cable in London saying the party offered an 'alternative to nationalism' ahead of the May 23 vote.

'Lib Dems are back in business!: Jubilant Liberal Democrats claim victory as they take 300 council seats while Tories and Labour suffer Brexit backlash

06/05/19 06:46

The party's support had crashed in the wake of Nick Clegg's disastrous decision to go into coalition with David Cameron in 2010, and they currently have just 11 MPs.

'We're back as a major force': Lib Dem leader Vince Cable hails his party's poll success and vows to 'turn our fire on Farage' as he urges Remainers to back them at EU elections

05/05/19 11:56

Outgoing Lib Dem leader Vince Cable (pictured today) said his party had 'fully recovered' from their 2015 slump after they gained hundreds of seats at Thursday's UK local elections.

BLACK DOG: Theresa May's town hall election humiliation is assured by Gavin Barwell in his campaign trail flop

05/05/19 01:54

BLACK DOG: Theresa May's chief of staff Gavin Barwell, who wrote a book on how to win a marginal seat, campaigned with a Woking council hopeful last week. He came second to a Lib Dem.

Tory MP is reduced to tears after seeing her party lose the city council they once held by a huge majority to the Liberal Democrats

03/05/19 17:25

MP Vicky Ford became upset during a TV interview after a bad night for the Tories in which they lost control of Chelmsford council.

George Best's ex-wife Alex, 47, is banned from the road after police caught her more than three times over the drink-drive limit following a crash near her Surrey home 'after a day out with ex-MP Lembit Opik'

03/05/19 14:55

George Best's ex-wife Alex, 47, has been banned from the roads after admitting drink-driving at Guildford Magistrates' Court today over a crash near her Surrey home last month.

Jeremy Hunt warns May a deal with Corbyn could 'lose more Tory MPs than you gain Labour MPs' as he meets heavily disguised undercover journalist in Ghana

30/04/19 15:19

The Foreign Secretary, who is touring Africa on a trip seen as the launch of his leadership campaign, pictured today, suggested he hopes talks with Jeremy Corbyn fail if it leads to the softest possible Brexit.

Fears that Trump's visit may ruin 75th anniversary D-Day event for thousands in Portsmouth as tight security forces crowds to view it on big screens while standing behind giant steel fences

25/04/19 14:28

Thousands of people are expected to flood into Portsmouth, Hampshire, to see veterans of the Normandy landings honoured in a poignant ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

STEPHEN GLOVER: I admire young Greta’s idealism - but why DO our fawning politicians lose all reason over climate change?

25/04/19 10:54

When Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, showed up in Westminster on Tuesday, several dozen MPs packed into a room to hear her, and government officials were also present.

Change UK group plots to destroy the Lib Dems and hoover up their members, MPs and donors, leaked memo reveals

24/04/19 12:46

The group of former Labour and Tory MPs, known as TIGgers, states that its objective is to defeat the Lib Dems so there is just a ‘single party for 'progressive politics'.

A snap general election would leave Parliament even MORE divided as both the Tories and Labour face losing seats, latest analysis from polling expert Sir John Curtice reveals

29/03/19 21:51

Sir John Curtice - who is in charge of the main exit polls at general elections - is forecasting 307 Tory MPs, down from 317 last time, and 256 Labour MPs, down from 262.

Breakaway Independent Group could be BIGGER than Labour after a general election if it joins forces with the Lib Dems, poll finds

26/02/19 16:16

TIG is just five per cent behind Jeremy Corbyn's party in a new YouGov poll (inset). But an alliance with Vince Cable's party would see it overtake Labour to form the second-largest parliamentary group.

Conservatives would win a 34-seat majority if a General Election were held tomorrow - but LOSE if Jeremy Corbyn stepped down as Labour leader, poll suggests

24/02/19 08:44

After a week of drama in which both of the main UK parties lost MPs to The Independent Group, a new poll puts the Conservatives on 39 per cent and Labour on 31 per cent.

Corbyn's 'pro-Brexit' stance could cost Labour 45 seats at a general election, leaked report claims

07/02/19 11:44

The details from the report do not reveal which seats Mr Corbyn stands to lose with a change of tack. It is likely to be focused on heavily pro-Remain seats where votes could switch to the Liberal Democrats.

'Knife Asbos' that carry two years in jail if breached are delayed by Liberal Democrat peer's concern that the orders would criminalise the young

07/02/19 08:48

Home Secretary Sajid Javid suffered a blow last night as the Government delayed his proposal which would have meant knife-wielding children could have been banned from social media.

Twenty Labour MPs and five Tories are poised to QUIT their parties to form a new centrist group, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable claims

05/02/19 09:47

Sir Vince Cable (pictured) claimed that MPs who formed breakaway group would then strike an informal alliance with the Lib-Dems.

How the plot unfolded: Day-by-day account of how Tory saboteur Dominic Grieve and speaker John Bercow hatched a secret plan to kill Brexit

13/01/19 03:17

Seventeen Tory rebels, including Mr Grieve (pictured), joined Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats to defeat the Government on the Grieve amendment by 308 votes to 297 on Wednesday.

John Major pays tribute to Lord Ashdown as a 'man of duty, passion, and devotion to the country he loved' at funeral of ex-Lib Dem leader who died aged 77

10/01/19 19:02

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats died surrounded by his family on December 22, aged 77, just weeks after revealing he was battling bladder cancer.

David Leyonhjelm quits: Controversial senator who praised migrants for 'delivering his pizzas and working at 7-Eleven' abandons federal politics to take on Mark Latham at state level

07/01/19 09:34

Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm will quit federal politics next month to contest the NSW state election.

Anger as Theresa May gives a peerage to defeated Tory MP Nicola Blackwood so the one-time rising star can rejoin the Government just 18 months after losing her seat

30/12/18 09:06

Former junior Health Minister Nicola Blackwood was one of the highest-profile casualties of the Conservatives’ 2017 General Election after losing her marginal seat of Oxford West and Abingdon

Theresa May 'tears up manifesto pledges on social care and education' so the UK can prepare for No Deal doomsday as Health Secretary charters the NHS's own PLANE to fly in cancer treatments

24/12/18 08:43

The PM's deputy David Lidington has been tasked with identifying which policies cannot be delivered while the Government is tackling Brexit.

The military man who rescued the Lib Dems during its darkest hour: How former Royal Marine Paddy Ashdown fought ‘with every ounce of his considerable stamina’ to enter politics and became a hero to his party

22/12/18 23:34

Paddy Ashdown, pictured with his wife Jane, was born in New Dehli in 1941 but grew up on the outskirts of Belfast before joining the Royal Marines in 1959 and later the Special Boat Service.

Lib Dems and SNP table vote of no confidence in May’s government: Minor parties upstage Corbyn as they hatch Commons motion – but PM can still ignore the calls

19/12/18 08:55

SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and Greens have tabled a formal No Confidence vote in the Commons. Leaders call Corbyn's demand yesterday for non-binding vote 'a gimmick'.

Lib Dem leader Vince Cable claims 'it is more likely Brexit WON'T happen than Theresa May passing her crunch deal'

10/12/18 11:22

Former coalition business secretary Sir Vince Cable warned there would be a 'hell of a backlash' from Remainers if the Prime Minister's 'economically damaging' Brexit deal goes through.

'Thank you to Australia's young brown men': Right-wing senator sparks controversy by praising migrants for 'delivering his pizzas, driving his Ubers and working at 7-Eleven'

05/12/18 00:44

The Liberal Democrats David Leyonhjelm took to the Senate on Tuesday night where he praised the men for 'not whinging about a brown pay gap'.

Lib Dem staffer is investigated over claims he tried to sleep with female colleague by 'taking her to dinner to discuss Brexit'

11/11/18 14:18

One of the party’s most senior advisers was subjected to an independent investigation into claims that he tried to sleep with a female colleague under the pretext of holding a policy meeting.

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