With another poll showing the Tories short of the lead they need to be sure of a majority—ICM for the Sunday Telegraph has the Tories on 38, Labour on 31 and the Lib Dems on 21—we are going to hear even more about a hung parliament and the role of the Lib Dems; I can’t remember any Lib Dem leader getting as much media attention as Nick Clegg has had these past four days. But if t...

In an interview with the Telegraph published today Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg makes clear that the 4p basic rate income tax cut the party has already announced is just the start: Mr Clegg has announced that he will cut £20 billion from public spending, which will be ploughed into tax cuts for middle earners. “We

Here for LDV readers’ delectation is Nick Clegg speaking to camera just after launching the Lib Dems’ tax proposals for the next election: tax cuts for millions of people paid for by closing tax loopholes, making polluters pay and introducing a mansion tax on homes worth over £2m. PS to the Lib Dem video production team

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

Three new polls today, all with positive news for the Lib Dems: ICM in the Sunday Telegraph … CON 38%(+1), LAB 30%(-3), LIB DEM 21%(nc) YouGov in the Sunday Times … CON 40%(nc), LAB 32%(+2), LIB DEM 18%(-2) ComRes in the Independent on Sunday/Sunday Mirror … CON 39%(+2), LAB 32%(+2), LIB DEM 16%(-4) (There is also a poll in

Nick Clegg does seem to be keeping busy.  After his excellent work during the Gurkha vote,  which incorporated the first outing of the Clegg-Cameron coalition, today's Telegraph contains this revelation: "Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, has privately authorised secret approaches to unhappy Blairites, trying to persuade them to join the Lib Dems instead of forming their own brea...

Remember those Lib Dem calls for a mansion tax at the weekend? I said at the time that, ‘the Lib Dems appear to be drawing more attention to which of their own policies they are fighting for within government, whether those policies make it to the statute books or not.’ Well, now they're at it again. Nick Clegg is giving a speech this morning in which he'll urge George Osborn...

Every Tory I have spoken to this week has said the same thing, ‘aren’t the Lib Dems having a terrible time.’ The Tories are particularly happy because they see the Lib Dems’ credibility on economics taking a bartering thanks to the total confusion over Cable’s proposed new tax on million-pound homes. They also think that the new Lib Dem policy will hurt the Lib Dems i...

In a Sunday Telegraph interview the Lib Dem Business Secretary warns government tax policy must involve "redistribution".

In his piece for the Telegraph today, Iain Dale applauds Nick Clegg for talking about tax cuts and laments the fact that it is a Liberal Democrat leader and not a Conservative one who is doing so.Will Nick Clegg attract Tory voters - Not all Conservatives are so impressed with Clegg's rhetoric, with ConsevativeHome arguing, for example, that the Lib Dem leader is lacking in wider credibility on t...