Ed Davey

With the first public airing of concerns about the leader, several of his MPs are said to have their eyes on the top job

Capped fares for donkey rides, yachting with oligarchs and Lib Den log flumes: How Britain’s political class have been spending the season

Ed Davey's party is already preparing for a world in which they enter government alongside Andy Burnham's Labour Party

Just two years after a historic general election success, MPs are wondering where the party is going under their stunt-loving leader

The Liberal Democrat leader has enraged the Reform man and his partner with comments about her tax status

The Lib Dems beat Reform at the election but lost the media war. Now their leader warns that Farage and Robinson seek to tear Britain apart for personal gain

The Conservative leader quizzed the PM on Tony Blair's net zero comments, just a week too late. Meanwhile, Ed Davey went all Pastor Niemöller

The leader of the opposition was almost invisible in the Commons today – but the real threat to Starmer comes not from the Tories, but from the benches behind him

It was an understandably subdued prime minister’s questions until the Conservative leader reverted to type

While her choice of topics has narrowed, her inability to land blows on a PM with a current approval rating of -42 is mindblowing

The child grooming scandal, said the Tory leader, was one of the worst in British history. So why had she never mentioned it before?

While Ed Davey faces an uncontested leadership election, a more interesting poll looms next year

With the prime minister pursuing a string of unpopular policies, the Tory leader used PMQs to focus on things Keir Starmer said years ago

Keir Starmer parries attacks over Louise Haigh by reminding the Tory leader of her party’s reign of shame

Westminster reacts in astonishment as Keir Starmer tells a joke and it is actually quite good

Cringeworthy quips and one decent punchline marked the former prime minister’s final PMQs

Keir Starmer slipped effortlessly into Prime Minister's Questions while Rishi Sunak is already a figure of pity

The Liberal Democrats’ 72-seat success is not just the product of cheesy stunts and a brilliant tactical voting operation – Ed Davey’s own story helped too

The Lib Dem leader has been running a crack campaign – with the Euros approaching, might he recreate a football fan’s famous stunt?

They won’t win the election - but at least they are the adults in the room

He’s not going to become PM, but he’s already taught Starmer and Sunak a lesson

Davey is desperately trying to fight off allegations of being “the invisible man”

The party plan to appeal to the “yoof” vote by rebranding as the Dem Libs...

The Lib Dem leader says rejoining the European Union is currently off the table

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Emerging from his party’s recent electoral victory in Chesham and Amersham, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has ruled out the possibility of an alliance with Labour.  On LBC‘s Swarbrick, Davey said that “there were quite a lot of Labour people and Green people who voted for us very comfortably, partly because they could see that […]

The Liberal Democrats have claimed the Chesham and Amersham by-election is “neck and neck” as voters go to the polls in a by-election for the historically Conservative safe seat. The constituency in Buckinghamshire has been held by the Tories since its creation in 1974, but the Liberal Democrats have insisted it could “go down to […]

A cross-party group of MPs have written to Boris Johnson urging him to give “simply exhausted” unpaid carers a weekly break following the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic. The group, led by the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, is calling on the prime minister to provide emergency funding to local authorities in order to […]

A “full, proper” public inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic could be established within a year, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister committed to setting up the inquiry within the new session of parliament which started on Tuesday. Although there is no fixed length for a parliamentary session, they typically run […]

The pandemic might finally be giving the party a purpose, but it will also highlight the tensions of its dual heritage of economic liberalism and social democracy For the first time since the last election the Liberal Democrats are getting some national attention. In his unqualified opposition to vaccine passports and some of the other pandemic constraints […]

Shirley Williams, the former Labour cabinet minister who broke away from the party to form the SDP, has died aged 90. In a statement Lib Dem leader Ed Davey paid tribute to Baroness Williams of Crosby as a “true trailblazer” who had inspired millions. As a Labour minister, Lady Williams, served in the governments of […]

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey are calling on Boris Johnson to cut taxes for small firms as he kicks off the party’s local elections campaign. Sir Ed wants the government to slash national insurance contributions for small firms to help aid the country’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and spark a recruitment boom. In […]