The last constituency result sailed into view this evening when Lib Dem Angus MacDonald took Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire from the SNP. The general election delivered a Lib Dem parliamentary party of 72. My expectation of 40-50 seats for the Lib Dems was way off the mark. My excuse is that we got such a beating in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections that we dared not to believe positive news
Sat 6th
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Our new MPs: Joshua Reynolds, Alison Bennett, Lee Dillon, Alex Brewer, Alasdair Pinkerton
We thought you might like to find out a little bit about our new MPs. We didn't think we'd have quite so many, but this is a lovely problem to have. All details come from the party website or the MPs' social media. We'll get to know them more over the next wee while, but here's a taster. Our editor sleepily compiled a Twitter list of all our MPs' accounts she could find. You can follow it here. Joshua Reynolds MP: Maidenhead Joshua Reynolds is a familiar face across Maidenhead. Elected to the council in 2019, and now a cabinet ...
Sat 6th
20:44Our new MPs: Monica Harding, Zoe Franklin, Freddie van Mierlo, John Milne, James Maccleary
We thought you might like to find out a little bit about our new MPs. We didn't think we'd have quite so many, but this is a lovely problem to have. All details come from the party website or the MPs' social media. We'll get to know them more over the next wee while, but here's a taster. Our editor sleepily compiled a Twitter list of all our MPs' accounts she could find. You can follow it here. Monica Harding MP: Epsom and Ewell Monica is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Esher and Walton. Monica is a local mum of ...
Sat 6th
19:30Our new MPs - Lisa Smart, Susan Murray, Angus MacDonald, Calum Miller, Jess Brown-Fuller
We thought you might like to find out a little bit about our new MPs. We didn't think we'd have quite so many, but this is a lovely problem to have. All details come from the party website or the MPs' social media. We'll get to know them more over the next wee while, but here's a taster. Our editor sleepily compiled a Twitter list of all our MPs' accounts she could find. You can follow it here. Lisa Smart MP – Hazel Grove Born and brought up in the North West, Lisa lives in Romiley with her partner Ed, ...
Finally, after a combined total of about 18 hours of counting over 2 days, we have our 72nd MP. Angus MacDonald was confirmed as MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire a while ago. Alex Cole-Hamilton was very happy indeed: My heart is in the highlands today. The Liberal Democrats were all but wiped out in 2015, but that wasn't the worst thing to happen to us that year. Weeks later we lost Charles Kennedy. That the final act of this general election should see his old seat returned to Lib Dem hands and the care of Angus MacDonald is ...
We thought you might like to find out a little bit about our new MPs. We didn't think we'd have quite so many, but this is a lovely problem to have. All details come from the party website or the MPs' social media. We'll get to know them more over the next wee while, but here's a taster. Our editor sleepily compiled a Twitter list of all our MPs' accounts she could find. You can follow it here. Ian Sollom MP- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire Ian has lived in Cambridgeshire with his wife Bec since 2005 when they both ...
Sat 6th
16:21Our new MPs - Marie Goldman, Charlotte Cane, Victoria Collins, Steffan Aquarone, Pippa Heyling
We thought you might like to find out a little bit about our new MPs. We didn't think we'd have quite so many, but this is a lovely problem to have. All details come from the party website or the MPs' social media. We'll get to know them more over the next wee while, but here's a taster. Our editor sleepily compiled a Twitter list of all our MPs' accounts she could find. You can follow it here. Marie Goldman MP – Chelmsford Marie has lived in Chelmsford for over twenty years. Her children were born in Chelmsford and she ...
No matter how successful we have been in the many General Elections that I have been involved in since my first in 1970 there has always been someone who, after the elections, says, ...."but!" So, it might as well be me! In fact, let me correct my own first sentence. For the first time since 1970 I have not been involved in the General Election at all. Convention in Liverpool is that for the year that you are in office the Lord Mayor plays no part in politics so that they can act as the only member of the council ...
Following the 2024 general election, there are 72 Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament: Bath: Wera Hobhouse Bicester and Woodstock: Calum Miller Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: David Chadwick Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross: Jamie Stone Carshalton and Wallington: Bobby Dean Cheadle: Tom Morrison Chelmsford: Marie Goldman Cheltenham: Max Wilkinson Chesham and Amersham: Sarah Green Chichester: Jess Brown-Fuller Chippenham: Sarah Gibson Didcot and Wantage: Olly Glover Dorking and Horley: Chris Coghlan Eastbourne: Josh Babarinde Eastleigh: Liz Jarvis Edinburgh West: Christine Jardine Ely and East Cambridgeshire: Charlotte Cane Epsom and Ewell: Helen Maguire Esher and Walton: Monica Harding Frome and East Somerset: ...
Few of us dreamed that we could come out of this election campaign with over 70 seats. The willingness of Liberal Democrats across the country to travel to target seats, the high quality of the local campaign organisation when we got there, determined efforts to raise more money than most local campaigns have ever thought of before, all helped to maximise our gains. But we must also give full credit to the high quality and sustained consistency of the national campaign. I expect that many Liberal Democrats - naturally argumentative, with strong opinions of our own - have had their ...
Are you excited for the Inverness result which could give us our 72nd (yes, that's SEVENTY TWO) MP? Highland Council are streaming it on You Tube. Watch, live from Dingwall. Enjoy. It's likely to be a wee while yet before we get a declaration. * Newshound: bringing you the best Lib Dem commentary in print, on air or online.
"Lots of people left that meeting thinking: 'Fuck him. Fuck the PM. Fuck all this. I'm going to go look for a job.'" Emilio Casalicchio has talked to the people who watched the Conservative election campaign unravel from the inside. James Graham offers some hot takes on the election result. Impressively, this post was written before a vote had been counted. "While these accounts can no longer draw on RT or Sputnik for information, as they have been banned in the UK since Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine began in 2022, both these Russian influence accounts draw heavily on GB ...
It has been a bad week for democracy. In fact it has been a bad year for democracy. The only exception is the UK. But don't worry Britain's time will come. Now, however, the rise of the populist far-right just about everywhere else is dominating the world's headlines. Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally is knocking on France's gates to power. A conservative-dominated US Supreme Court has granted serial law breaker and liar Donald Trump immunity from prosecution. A cognitively-impaired Joe Biden is endangering democracy by clinging to power. A far-right anti-immigrant government has been formed in the Netherlands. And ...
At about 4am on Friday, 26,645 residents of Edinburgh West voted for Christine Jardine to continue as MP. This gave her a stonking majority of almost 16,500 over the SNP. To put this in perspective, in 2017, when she won the seat for the first time, she got 18,108 votes and a majority of just under 3000. It is the best performance in the seat since 1955. She is pictured here with her daughter Mhairi. Here is her victory speech. Returning officer, counting staff, police, everyone who has worked to distribute polling cards, postal voting packs, staff polling stations and ...
During the school holidays, there's a programme of summer events and activities been launched to help local families. Schools are sending out details of what's taking place, and you can find out what's available in your local area by going to https://bit.ly/DundeeHolidayFun Activities on offer include : • Outdoor Adventure Days including mountain biking, gorge walking, rock climbing and abseiling • Sports including football camps and dance camps, multi-sports camps, intensive swim lessons and lifeguard training • Early years - lots of fun activities for families with babies and early years children such as boogie babies, messy play, baby massage ...
In many ways Nigel Farage's Reform was a victim of its own hype. For a party that has had years of preferential treatment on the UK media and was being touted as winning thirteen plus seats, to end up with just five must have been a major disappointment. What is most disturbing though has been the reaction of the many media outlets who seem to believe that because Farage is now an MP and has four other MPs to back him up, then they are now justified in continuing that sort of coverage. Let's put this in context. The UK ...
