Showing posts with label Chris Huhne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Huhne. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Why the Lib Dem fuel duty cut would not reduce petrol prices

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I don'r recall any debate about it within the party, but it's now Liberal Democrat policy to cut fuel duty by 10p. This, we claim, w...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

The real Oliver Twist - with a note on the 2007 Liberal Democrat leadership contest

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Literary characters are usually created from a wide range of sources, but I can claim to have worked with the model for someone in Malcolm B...
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Thursday, January 25, 2024

"Morals more akin to the Mafia": Chris Huhne on the methods of the Murdoch empire

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Chris Huhne says the public documents in the cases brought by three former Liberal Democrat ministers - Vince Cable, Norman Lamb and Huhne h...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Vince Cable, Chris Huhne and Norman Lamb sue Sun and News of the World publisher over phone hacking

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Embed from Getty Images Claiming an exclusive, the Guardian reports that three senior Liberal Democrat politicians, Vince Cable, Chris Huhn...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Norman Lamb on his time as a minister... and Danny Alexander

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Norman Lamb has been interviewed by the Institute for Government for its Ministers Reflect series. You can see a short clip from it above an...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Is social class the elephant in the Liberal Democrat room?

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One of the best things about our party is that we are so sensitive to the many reasons that people can suffer discrimination. Yet I cannot r...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Ed Davey and Layla Moran: It's déjà vu all over again

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Embed from Getty Images Calder's Sixth Law of Politics holds that all Lib Dem leadership elections are reruns of the Liberal Party leade...
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Sunday, June 30, 2019

I shall be voting for Ed Davey

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Embed from Getty Images Andrew Rawnsley , while recognising what an important figure the winner may turn out to be, complains that the cur...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Is Jo Swinson the Steel and Layla Moran the Pardoe?

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Embed from Getty Images A few years ago I floated a theory about Liberal Party and Liberal Democrat leadership elections: the are all reru...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Lembit Opik: “I have been asked to stand for the Estonian Presidency"

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Embed from Getty Images In what the Mirror credibly labels an "Exclusive", Lembit Opik  claims that he's been asked by mul...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Forget “the Lib Dem family”: Let’s have proper leadership elections

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Embed from Getty Images The first Liberal Party leadership election I followed was the one between David Steel and John Pardoe in 1976. ...
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Monday, March 05, 2018

The children of Sussex spinners of the 1970s: 2. Theo Barclay

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A little idle googling last October led to the discovery that Giles Cheatle, a left-arm spinner who played for Sussex in the 1970s, has a ...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

The Campbell/Clegg pact in the 2006 Lib Dem leadership contest

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Embed from Getty Images Mark Pack's latest Liberal Democrat Newswire (not yet in the newletter's archive) recalls the 2007 leader...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Six of the Best 753

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It is 10 years since Nick Clegg narrowly gained the leadership of the Liberal Democrats. Jen Yockney speculates on what might have happen...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A warning to Labour after Stoke

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See? Razor-sharp analysis. The old boy is not such a buffer as some suppose.  Friday Home from Stoke-on-Trent where I have been helpin...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Ignore Polly Toynbee by all means, but what lessons should the Lib Dems learn from the Coalition years?

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Embed from Getty Images Polly Toynbee has an article in today's Guardian whose headline tells you all you need to know: Why ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Reviewing David Laws’ memoirs

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Friday A breeze stirs the May blossom, inspiring me to prop open the French windows in the Library. I settle down to review David Laws’ ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Schools are being nationalised so they can be privatised

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As Stephen Tall rightly says, the announcement in the Budget that all schools will be obliged to become academies amounts to the nationali...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Liberal Democrats made too much of the Eastleigh by-election

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Liberal Democrat activists have remained remarkably cheerful despite our abysmal national opinion poll ratings and our failure to score ...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Are all Liberal leadership contests Steel vs Pardoe?

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#515846365 / gettyimages.com I was not a member of the Liberal Party in 1976 because there was no branch in Market Harborough to ...
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