This week, there were ten by-elections, of which two were on Tuesday. Three by-elections did not have a Liberal Democrat candidate. Congratulations to Councillor Jan Goffey and the local Liberal ...

In an era when populism erodes democratic norms and insecurity pervades the modern workplace, the defence of liberal democracy must extend beyond parliaments and ballot boxes. It must reach the ...

I’ve noticed here on LibDemVoice that when we have a discussion about the economy and what the Government can afford, it usually descends into a very technical argument about the nature of money: is ...

Ending Wars is the bold title of a new book co-edited by Lord John Alderdice and Padraig O Malley and published earlier this ...

This month party members will be voting to elect our next Party President. At Lib Dem Voice we welcome posts from each of the candidates – one to launch their candidature plus a maximum of one per ...

Het kan wel’, a play on Barack Obama’s ‘Yes, we can’ quip, was ringing out in the Netherlands as Rob Jetten and his liberal D66 party surprised the pundits by winning the Dutch General Election last ...

What can the Liberal Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani’s clean sweep victory of the NYC Mayoral Race? This week, American Democrat Zohran Mamdani ended a year-long campaign with a decisive victory ...

I canvassed seventy-five doors for the Liberal Democrats last Saturday. I know it’s not a massive number by many politicos’ standards — I mean, I did seven hundred and sixty-nine across the short ...

One of the strange things about US democracy (and there are many – as there are in the UK) is that when a party is defeated in a Presidential election it immediately ceases to have a recognised leader ...

When a review of Lambeth Council’s committee structure proposed putting a councillor who had been arrested  on charges of ...

For decades the current governing party in the UK seems to have assumed that economic growth comes from the blunt instrument of government borrowing and spending. But as state debt has approached 100% ...

It’s been a difficult time in this party recently. I’ll admit that. Those of us who are trans and non-binary have been vilified not just in the media, but within our own party too. I understand why ...