There’s an interesting in-depth feature in today’s Guardian, focusing on the future prospects for the Lib Dems now the party is in government: Will the Liberal Democrats survive the coalition? (It’s a question I think we’ve all been asking ourselves for the last three weeks). It’s a generally fair and balanced take – highlighting the many

Not content with publishing a letter from leading progressives, the Guardian tonight brings to an end its journey to a decision about which party to support. The article is here. General election 2010: The liberal moment has come If the Guardian had a vote it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats. But under our discredited electoral

Following the endorsement of its sister paper the Observer and its leading columnist Polly Toynbee, the Guardian editorial today all-but formally recommends its readers vote for the Lib Dems in this Thursday’s Euro polls: The case for supporting the Liberal Democrats is now very strong. Anyone who believes Britain should be an engaged member of the

Oh dear, the Lib Dems are talking about hung parliaments again. According to The Guardian, Clegg will select a ‘team of senior members to begin "game theory" sessions to decide which rival party to back.’ Why bother? Everytime the press speculate that the Lib Dems will prop up Labour, Tory/Liberal waver-ers flock straight back to the blue corner. Talk of a Tory/Liberal coalition sends ...

The party has this morning issued the following briefing note on the achievements of the Lib Dems within the Coalition Government … In just 10 weeks since the start of the Coalition Government, the Liberal Democrats have exerted a huge influence over its agenda. Going into the election the Liberal Democrats made clear that they

The Guardian has the story: The Liberal Democrats are planning to rule out forming a coalition government with either the Conservatives or Labour if Nick Clegg holds the balance of power in a hung parliament after the general election. … senior Lib Dems are making clear that Clegg has no interest in taking cabinet posts and

How much respective influence have the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives had on the Coalition Government’s policies? Lib Dem blogger Duncan Stott has crunched the data from the Guardian’s Datablog: The most objective way of assessing the coalition at this early stage is the coalition agreement. An analysis of this text and the roots behind

It’s not often that forewords to the Lib Dem conference directory by the party president make media headlines. But Tim Farron’s honest appriasal of the past 500 days of the Lib Dems in Coalition has done just that — ‘Naive’ Liberal Democrats have suffered a loss of identity, says Tim Farron in The Guardian. The

In the Guardian last week, Timothy Garton-Ash argued that the Liberal Democrats’ distinctive identity is being lost both by coalition with the Conservatives and by other parties’ appropriation of the “liberal” label: The Liberal Democrats should change their name to the Liberals. Here’s why. First of all, Liberal Democrats is a pretty meaningless name. That’s

Liberal Democrats have good reason to be happy for a moment with Britain’s most mealy-mouthed newspaper. Yesterday, Nick Clegg launched his Take Back Power 100-day campaign in a Guardian article. Today, their editorial is full of praise for us: “The party championed reform when it was unfashionable. The difference is that other parties are now competing to match them. The Lib Dem leade...