The Tories are still not on course to win the general election outright, as two more opinion polls pointed to a hung Parliament.

Everyone has been guessing at what Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats would do if the voters return a hung parliament after the next election. The Lib Dem leader has sent all kinds of mixed signals. But if there is one person worth listening on the party’s intentions it is Julian Astle, the head of CentreForum, Britain’s leading Liberal think-tank, and a former political advisor to P...

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

The Speaker of the House of Commons has admitted it will take five years for Parliament to recover from the MPs' expenses scandal.

SNP leader Alex Salmond will tell his party's conference a hung parliament at Westminster would be "redolent with opportunity".

Labour will have to pay about £3m in interest over the next parliament to some of the millionaires who bankrolled the party's election campaign in 2005, the Financial Times has learnt

I think, after last year's stooshie, readers will know where I stand on All-Women Shortlists. I'm opposed to them, but one question that was posed to me (and I didn't answer at the time) was, what would I do? Well, you know that I don't like centrally-planned lists. I think they defeat the purpose of a Parliamentary system where an individual is elected to represent constituent...

MSPs back calls for the Scottish Parliament to reject plans for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire.

Lunchgate, an apology to parliament and a plunge in poll ratings are not the best backdrop for an SNP conference intended to boost election chances. Political Editor Ian Swans

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank