Labour-run Knowsley Council is continuing to pump money in to the Labour Party’s coffers by exhibiting at the party’s conference. The council pays to appear only at the Labour Party’s conferences, ignoring other parties, and is continuing to do so even now that Labour is no longer in government. Back in January 2007 Liberal Democrat

Sutton’s Liberal Democrat town hall bosses pushed through planning permission for the controversial £8million ‘Sutton Life Centre’ last week, following two planning committee meetings. Conservatives have raised severe concerns about the planning suitability of the ‘pet project’ as well as the cost, which has been labelled a “financial minefield”. App...

A few days ago, a dashing young Liberal Democrat leader suggested that Britain’s third party could overtake Labour. Clegg (for it was he) affirmed his belief that “the Liberal Democrats can replace Labour as the progressive party in British politics”. Nick talks of the Lib Dems as the dominant political party of urban Britain –

LIBERAL Democrat economics guru Vince Cable today laid into Labour, accusing the party of selling its soul over Iraq and losing its reputation for competence in the financial

The Lib Dem response to Ed Balls’ appointment as Labour’s shadow chancellor, replacing Alan Johnson, has been swift. Stephen Williams, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Treasury Committee, commented: “I wish Alan Johnson good luck for the future. “The decision to appoint Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor shows that the Labour Party is now determined

One of Labour's biggest financial supporters has turned his back on the party and asked for his money so he can give it to charity.

Of course, the Guardian isn't irredeemably in the pocket of the Labour Party. On Friday, they reported on the Electoral Commission's misgivings over Labour's new campaign finance proposals. Politics is irredeemably linked with money. Politicians spend money (ours, for the most part), raise money for campaigning, and tell people what they can or can't do with their money. As a Liberal Democrat, I

The leaked British National party list contains the names of individuals who are former members of all the mainstream political parties in England, it emerged today. A former constituency chairman for the Conservatives, a former Labour prospective parliamentary candidate, and a church minister who had been at various times a Green, a Conservative and a Liberal Democrat, all went public on why they...

Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph reports: In an echo of the split that led to the creation of the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s, up to a dozen Blairite MPs have discussed leaving the party. Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, has disclosed that senior Labour members told him they were prepared to leave the party because they fear it could lurch to the Left. The paper goes on to...

I have come to the conclusion I am a Liberal Democrat, but have not yet pulled my finger out and joined the party. I am a student studying politics and have recently begun to question my political alliances. Back in September, at the beginning of my degree, I joined the Labour party – mainly due to