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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisAfter North Shropshire, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer should be worriedYesterday’s by-election saw the Tories implode and Labour fail to make ground. The Lib Dems will be hoping this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson’s strength is his divided opposition – is Labour brave enough to respond?With Boris Johnson vocally setting up 'the people vs parliamentary elites' and promising a public spending splurge,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the new Lib Dem leader needs to offer more than just the ‘sugar rush’ of Brexit oppositionBoth Jo Swinson and Ed Davey have approached the leadership election offering restoration, not transformation. But...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain's two party system: will Peterborough confirm it’s dead again?Fidelity to party machines won’t save us from a new authoritarianism. Only a new, pluralist political system can do that.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPaddy Ashdown – a frank remembranceAshdown’s successes as a relatable man, a tactician and a statesman should not blind us to his strategic failures.
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Published in: ourNHSAlcoholism, the NHS, and political hypocrisyPoliticians show sympathy for the sadly premature death of Charles Kennedy - but none for the ordinary alcoholic,...
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Published in: ourNHSLiberal Democrats health policy: who is the rebel?Lib Dem supporters of the NHS have come up with simple, radical suggestions for saving it from privatisation. But...
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Published in: ourNHSThe third big NHS deception
The public will not fall for the government's deception over the hospital closure clause - even if MPs have.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy do the Lib Dems care so much about Lord Rennard?Lord Rennard was key to the rise of the Lib Dems - and the dirty politics that came with it. This is why so many Lib...
