Lib Dem conference rolling blog – highlights of the party’s anti-Tory positioning

Wednesday, 12.30pm: It’s the final day of the Liberal Democrat conference, and so the final day of our intermittent live… Read more »

Tory MPs take the opportunity to give Clegg a kicking

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Our Parliamentarians are back in town — and, boy, don’t we know it. There have… Read more »

Why Tories shouldn’t be quick to pour scorn on Nick Clegg

Okay, the picture to the right may be slightly overdoing it — but I still think that Nick Clegg deserves some defence… Read more »

A Last Chance Reshuffle for Growth. Which means appointing Laws and (gulp) promoting Cable

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Cameron should be willing to move Hague and May in order to get Cable… Read more »

David Cameron’s leadership is now at risk

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Imagine a civil partnership of which one member suddenly announced to the world: "My… Read more »

Danny Alexander’s words suggest that George Osborne’s credit rating headache is getting worse

Let’s put Louise Mensch, Boris and Nigel Farage aside for a moment — the most significant political news of the… Read more »

Memo to those one-in-five Conservative supporters who would prefer Vince Cable as Chancellor

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter There’s one finding that really stands out from this ComRes poll today, which is… Read more »

The Lib Dem leadership race has started

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In last Monday's Times (£) I wondered if electorates would start to turn to… Read more »

Any Liberal Democrat Minister who votes against the boundary review must be fired

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter David Cameron is reported to be considering not proceeding with the boundary review at… Read more »

Before Lords rebellion, Clegg said there was no link with boundary review. Now Ming says there is.

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Sir Menzies Campbell appeared on the Andrew Marr Show this morning to discuss Lords… Read more »

David Laws steps in as the coalition’s marriage counsellor

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter With impeccable timing, the House magazine has interviewed David Laws for its latest issue…. Read more »

Lib Dems attempt to make Tories vote for Lords reform by saying it’s linked to boundary review. But Clegg says it isn’t.

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. An interview with Richard Reeves, who stepped down from being one of Nick Clegg's… Read more »

The Government needs David Laws back round the Cabinet table

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Easy relations between the Coalition partners began to break down in earnest after the… Read more »

Hammond finds funds for new generation of nuclear weapons to replace Trident (and annoy the Lib Dems)

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. 3.30pm Update: appearing on the Sunday Politics show, Andrew Neil asked Philip Hammond how… Read more »

Are Liberal Democrat MPs now free to abstain if Ed Miliband tables a no-confidence vote in the Government?

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter I was under the misapprehension that, since this is a Coalition Government, Conservatives and… Read more »