Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads … Lib Dems to accuse Labour of failing to deliver fair taxes (Guardian) Tax is the issue of the day for the Lib Dems, with the party launching an attack on Labour for increasing taxes on the poor over

There’s a pre-conference interview with Nick Clegg in today’s London Evening Standard (copied ‘n’ pasted across to the Daily Mail) in which the Lib Dems’ tax-cutting agenda is spelled out. Worth reading in full, but here are some highlights: On the Lib Dems plans to reduce taxes: Mr Clegg admitted the Lib-Dems had urged higher spending in

Ever since Make it Happen was passed by the Liberal Democrat Conference last month, Nick Clegg has been calling for tax cuts. But that document was drawn up in a very different economic climate, and we have to ask today whether calling for tax cuts is wise or credible. The collapse of the banking system and increasing unemployment are going to put growing pressure on public finances. How are we go...

Lib-Dems take the lead. It’s embarrassing frankly when the party that gave us Joe Abbott, John McKie, and Joe Atkinson here on South Tyneside have taken the lead in calling for a tax cutting agenda to help hard working families spend our way out of recession. Yes you heard me right, the Lib-Dems are the party

The Lib Dems will outline plans to crack down on tax avoidance as party members prepare to debate crucial tax policies.

Following a campaign by Lib Dem MPs in wealthier London suburbs, the Lib Dems now say they would raise the mansion tax threshold from £1m to £2m. The Lib Dems have been unable to convincingly say how they’ll work out the value of people’s homes that aren’t being sold. The available figures on sales show

The Liberal Democrats, meeting in Bournemouth, deny that their latest tax proposals are simply Tory tax cuts with a liberal face.

Yesterday we reported the Telegraph’s list of numbers 26 to 50 in their annual list of ‘influential Lib Dems’, as devised by Iain Dale, Brian Brivati “with the help of a panel of senior Lib Dems”. Today we find out who they placed top of the pile… The least surprising news is that Nick Clegg

Many congratulations to Bob Russell, the Lib Dem MP that is spearheading the campaign to axe the beer tax and save the pub. Hopefully it will send a message to other Lib Dems that cutting taxes is popular with the voters. Also, it was good to see Mark Littlewood on Channel 4 News last night having a go at the SNP for wanting to price the Scots off alcohol.

Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that top Tory Zac Goldsmith did not tell his local party about his ‘non-dom’ tax status when he was selected to fight the next election against the Lib Dems’ Susan Kramer: Earlier this week announced that he [sic] planned to surrender his “non-dom” status from the current tax year to defuse the