A decision is expected when the Executive committee meets this week, and the poll itself is due to take place after June 21.
His focus on leftish politics and local campaigning built the party into a potent force, but left it badly exposed to the dangers of coalition with the Conservatives.
I’d relax the limits significantly if not totally, but insist on near real-time transparency from campaigns over their permitted donors.
The official result will be announced regionally, but a tally of local counts may make the outcome clear long before that point is reached.
If MPs tried to cheat the voters, they would risk a populist backlash. To defy the people would be to put their seats at risk.
Plus: The steel crisis. Trump’s abortion atrocity. Nick Watt, denied a Guardian promotion by political correctness. And: I leave ConHome to write for Momentum.
Four reflections on the campaign so far and things to watch for as the campaign intensifies.
There are two groups I intensely dislike. The first are the “laptop warriors”. The second are those who play the man and not the ball.
“They don’t like personality-led politics. They want to know the arguments.”
The moment the two clashed directly this afternoon.
It is a grand delusion that, right after walking out of the EU, our former partners would be bound to give us a better deal than we have now, with none of the cost.
There’s a case for remaining in the EU. And a case for leaving. But there is no case for staying based on this shrunken and slippery negotiation.
Exactly a decade after forming a government with the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are languishing on the political fringes – where did it all go wrong?