Nick Clegg reshuffles his frontbench team to prepare for a general election with moves for Simon Hughes and Steve Webb.

Congratulations to Nick Clegg for his article in the Guardian this morning. His analysis of the Israeli assault on the Gaze Strip is surely correct: Israel's approach is self-defeating: the overwhelming use of force, the unacceptable loss of civilian lives, is radicalising moderate opinion among Palestinians and throughout the Arab world. Anger in the West Bank will make it virtually impossib...

Where’s the money going in key marginals? The big move in the 2005 general election, of course, was the switch of 5-6% of the voters from Labour to the Lib Dems at a time when the Iraq War was still a major influence. Many of the starting positions in individual seats that Nick Clegg’s party

Nick Clegg has apparently said Councils need to show ‘more restraint’ in taking people to court when they are late paying their Council tax. All this sounds very right and proper, and in fact chimes with many stories I’ve heard in Southampton of the Council being overly aggressive in threatening vulnerable people with court action. The problem is, these stories started after ...

I agree with Nick Clegg. Brown must stop sitting on his hands and take action. First, he must condemn unambiguously Israel’s tactics, which are bringing untold suffering to hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza, just as he has rightly condemned Hamas’ rocket attacks. Then he must lead the European Union into using its economic

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg today called for Gordon Brown to halt all arms exports to Israel and condemn the unacceptable and counter-productive tactics which are bringing suffering to hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza. Writing in today’s Guardian, Nick Clegg said: “Brown must stop sitting on his hands and take action. First, he must

With neither Labour nor the Tories saying much about Israel, Nick Clegg spotted an opportunity in venting outrage today. His party love it - but a little too much. Here is an extract from the blog of Chris Davies, a Libdem MEP: "It is time for Liberal Democrats to call a halt to the attempt to ride two horses and to try not to upset the Israeli lobby. Our support for the Palestinian cause is ...

Kevin Maguire devotes the bulk of his column today to arguing that Gordon Brown should sign up to a televised debate before the next election. Maguire writes: “In Downing Street, the mood remains opposed to US-style Presidential TV debates. … Brown should declare now that he'll talk podium-to-podium with Cameron and the Lib Dems' Nick Clegg in front of millions of viewers....

Nick Clegg wants Britain to push the EU to end trade with Israel. In a Guardian article, the Lib Dem leader vies for the left-wing, anti-Iraq vote and argues that the EU "must immediately suspend the proposed new cooperation agreement with Israel until things change in Gaza." If we overlook the article's factually incorrect claim that the EU suspended its "presence on the Egypt...

Regular visitors to this blog know I would like to be elected Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire. While not dismissing the chances of Nick Colborne, Bruce Lawson, or the selected but as yet un-named Plaid Cymru candidate, my main opponent is likely to be Lembit Opik, the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP. I've always got along pretty well with him, and in general, don't criticise the w...