This article first appeared in CityAM By Joe Zammit-Lucia The Liberal Democrats have a new, young, energetic, female leader and are riding high in the…
This article first appeared in CityAM By Joe Zammit-Lucia The Liberal Democrats have a new, young, energetic, female leader and are riding high in the…
In this article published in the Independent, Chuka Umunna explains why centrism still has the opportunity to thrive in the face of extremism. He says:…
The Liberal Democrats are a shambles, widely reviled for betraying people’s trust on tuition fees and led by an old man with no charisma. Yet…
It was exactly 160 years ago, on 9 June 1859, that the various liberal factions that came to make up the Victorian Liberal Party met…
This is my stand on The Radical Centre: A Ten-Point Guide. It is a seven-point programme for a radical centre 1) Introduce seriously representative democracy to replace…
“What people want in this country is action and not too much talk.” Rory Stewart What is the radical centre? This is suddenly a more important…
Way back in 1986, I went to the launch in Oxford Town Hall of my friend Martin Stott’s book Spilling the Beans – subtitled “A…
It just hasn’t happened for Change UK. There was a moment when it could have, but a combination of naivety, poor timing, bad organisation and…
What is the radical centre? Isn’t it just a re-hash of the Third Way, of Blair, Major and Cameron? With hindsight, New Labour was far…
So, the Lib Dems are back. Well, sort of. Their national share of the vote on Thursday across England is calculated to have been about…
It was a moment which felt, for me, like throwing oneself into the deep end: Nick Silver and I went on Sky News’ All Out…