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Liberal Democrat conference

March 2024

  • Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrats’ Treasury spokesperson

    Lib Dems to open conference with call to copy Biden’s tax on share buybacks

    Exclusive: Money raised from a tax on companies buying their own shares could be used for green investment, party says
  • British home secretary Suella Braverman delivers a speech on global migration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Suella Braverman criticised by Labour over ‘deeply divisive’ migration speech – as it happened

    Home secretary argued that ‘uncontrolled’ migration poses ‘existential challenge for institutions of the west’
  • Sir Ed Davey addresses the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth.

    The Guardian view on the Liberal Democrats: a strategy to help oust the Tories

    Editorial: Casting the Lib Dems as the party of the NHS is bold but credible – given a Liberal can claim to have invented it
    • Ed Davey pledges to guarantee cancer patients treatment within two months – video

    • Not-so-cuddly Lib Dems laser focused on target list of seats

    • Ed Davey pledges legal guarantee on cancer waiting times

  • Ed Davey and fellow members of the Lib Dems front bench vote during policy motions at the party’s conference in Bournemouth.

    Lib Dems members rebuff leadership with vote to keep housebuilding targets

    Overwhelming conference vote defies Ed Davey strategy of reshaping policy to court wavering Tory voters
  • Construction work for HS2 at the Old Oak Common site in London.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened

    Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link
  • Ed Davey

    Lib Dems rule out taxing rich in effort to woo Tory voters

    Lib Dem leader says party will target Conservative voters and use energy firms’ profits and banks’ tax breaks to fund NHS
  • Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, addresses the party conference in Bournemouth.

    Liberal Democrats plan to focus election campaign on ultra-local issues

  • An aerial view of the HS2 Wendover viaduct works near Jones Hill Wood in Great Missenden, England.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Shapps says ‘outside reality’ not to reconsider HS2 as Labour says it cannot make decision without more information – as it happened

  • Lib Dem education spokeswoman Munira Wilson speaking during the Liberal Democrat conference at the Bournemouth Conference Centre.

    Lib Dems would double shared parental pay and increase leave

  • Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss at the 2022 Conservative Party conference.

    Battles, old flames and key narratives: a look ahead to conference season

  • Ed Davey in his garden

    Lib Dems’ Ed Davey to make £5bn-a-year pledge on care in England

    On eve of party conference, leader says he feels a heavy responsibility to help get Conservatives out of power

March 2023

  • Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, delivers his keynote speech during the party’s spring conference in York on 19 March 2023.

    Next steps to create an anti-Tory alliance: Scotland and the Lords

    Letters: Paul Clarke on how the Liberal Democrats could detoxify their brand through increasing collaboration with other parties
  • Sir Ed Davey speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference in York

    The Guardian view on tactical voting: it would help to oust Tories

    Editorial: Labour voters in Conservative-held commuter belt seats should respond positively to Sir Ed Davey’s overtures
  • Ed Davey

    Lib Dems to target Labour voters in ‘blue wall’ swing seats, says Ed Davey

    Party leader hopes letter campaign in commuter belt areas can tempt voters to switch in order to beat Tories

November 2022

  • Ed Davey gestures as he delivers a speech from a lectern in a room of Lib Dem supporters

    Lib Dems say quarter of property owners fear losing their home

    Ed Davey sets out plans for mortgage protection fund that would provide grants of up to £300 a month

September 2022

  • Parliament observes a minute’s silence after the Queen's death

    Fears of parliamentary ‘paralysis’ as Queen’s funeral leaves parties in limbo

    Mourning has halted debate just when the opposition wanted to put pressure on new PM – but Labour conference will go ahead

September 2021

  • Ed Davey gives his speech to the Lib Dem conference, London, 19 September.

    A joint manifesto could break the Tory stranglehold

    Letters: Parties should put rivalries aside to oust the government at the next election, says Keith Martin, while Alex Gunter argues that such an alliance is impossible
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