I blame the Tories. Ever since David Cameron became their leader, he’s been determined to ‘love-bomb’ the Lib Dems. Love-bombing is the ingenious tactic by which other parties claim to believe in enough Lib Dem policies without, y’know, actually being Lib Dems. Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband was at it last month. Then earlier this

David Cameron made an unprecedented offer to the Liberal Democrats yesterday to join the Conservatives in a power-sharing deal.

Letter: The aims and aspirations that drew us into politics are now best represented by the Conservatives led by David Cameron

DAVID Cameron last night appeared to be pulling away from the Liberal Democrats and Labour as a series of polls suggested that the Conservatives were extending their lead ove

In six days time, one of two things will be happening. There will be a squatters’ seige, depicted by Coffee House here, or David Cameron will be forming his government. In the leading article in this week’ Spectator, we say it's imperative that this government contains not a single Liberal Democrat – and, indeed, is formed without any pact with the Lib Dems. If Cameron fails...

I've just watched Nick Clegg on the Andrew Marr show and I have come to a few conclusions. Nick has (in my opinion) aped David Cameron and duplicated Conservative policies (apart from on the EU) from the day he was installed as Lib Dem leader. This is a exceedingly dodgy strategy to lead the Lib Dems into the next general election. It could work out one of two ways: The Lib Dems could steal v...

If you're looking for a spot of LibCon strife that might actually mean something, then how about Tavish Scott's interview in Scotland on Sunday? Judging by what he says about David Cameron, the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems clearly isn't one for coalition niceties: "I suspect that (David Cameron) doesn't even think about Scotland. It is not even remotely on his radar scr...

The discussion on politicalbetting.com this afternoon and evening has focussed on detail from this morning's YouGov poll which suggests that LD voters strongly favour David Cameron over Gordon Brown and that 50% of Lib Dem voters think that David Cameron is doing "fairly well" as Conservative leader. From this, Mike Smithson posits, as he has done on several occasions, that the correct Lib De...

Exclusive: Lib Dem ministers claim Cameron is insincere while Osborne has "no experience of how ordinary people live".

• Large Ukip vote may push party into third place • Conservatives come first in Wales • BNP wins Yorkshire and Humber seat David Cameron was this morning heading for victory in the elections to the European parliament, as Labour saw its vote crumble across Britain, amid signs it would be beaten into third place by the UK Independence party. Labour was experiencing setbacks across th...