Showing posts with label Alistair Carmichael. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alistair Carmichael. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Tributes paid to Jim Wallace in the Holyrood chamber

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The funeral of Jim Wallace – Baron Wallace of Tankerness – took place earlier today at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. Eulogies were given b...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

"A man of profound faith and exceptional talent": Alistair Carmichael pays tribute to Jim Wallace

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Embed from Getty Images Alistair Carmichael has written a tribute to Jim Wallace – "a man of profound faith and exceptional talent...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Ed Davey wants to change Lib Dem policy on national ID cards

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The big news from today at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth is that the leadership wants to change the party's policy of o...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

Alistair Carmichael: Labour is falling into the same trap the Tories did on immigration

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The senior Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has given a measured and Liberal response to today's intervention on immigration by K...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Eight Liberal Democrat MPs have been barred from Russia

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The Putin regime has banned 15 British MPs from entering Russia, accusing them of making "hostile statements and unfounded accusations...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Joy of Six 1335

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"We may think that the dangers we face today are unprecedented (and in some ways perhaps they are) but history has a way of circling ba...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Alistair Carmichael marks 75th anniversary of Jo Grimond’s election

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Alistair Carmichael is the latest guest on Iain Dale's All Talk podcast, talking about his own career and about the former Liberal Part...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

The Joy of Six 1309

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"The proposals increase the number of directly elected executive mayors, whether local people want one or not. (West Yorkshire didn...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The Joy of Six 1289

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"Biden should have been managed off the stage in time for the party to have proper primaries, introducing a new generation of Democrati...
Saturday, August 03, 2024

The Joy of Six 1254

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"Easy though it is to mock the quality of the Tory leadership hopefuls, enabling and encouraging the worst impulses of the far-right ca...
Friday, July 19, 2024

The Joy of Six 1249

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Alistair Carmichael argues that 'popular Conservatives' are killing their party: "It takes a special sort of intelligence to s...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

The Joy of Six 1167

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"When you look at the facts in the cold light of day; Labour’s plan will raise much needed money at a time when state schools are quite...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "Call them Orkney and Shetland"

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When I tweeted a picture of a couple of my Liberal Party membership cards from the 1980s, something about the map on them attracted the atte...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Joy of Six 1124

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"It was an absolute stain on our country that we once kept children locked up in immigration removal centres, such as Dungavel in Scotl...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Wind-battered and unique, Alistair Carmichael talks about the challenges of representing Orkney and Shetland

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Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, talks about the challenge of balancing the needs of family, party and ...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Ed Davey calls on Cressida Dick to resign

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Embed from Getty Images Following the Metropolitan Police's use of force to break up a vigil for Sarah Everard this evening, the Liberal...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Northern Ireland businesses latest group to discover you can't believe a word Boris Johnson says

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Remember this video clip? Today it emerged that there will be customs checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The mint cake workers of Kendal

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Whether this is news from the past, present or future , you have to admit the old boy made the most of his time away from the Hall. Frid...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Alistair Carmichael will not stand for the party leadership

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Having talked this possibility up the other day, I suppose I had better talk it down again. Alistair Carmichael, says The Press and Jou...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Alistair Carmichael considers bid for Lib Dem leadership

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Embed from Getty Images If Alistair Carmichael had stood for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats in 2015 I would happily have supporte...
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