The sad puppy gambit, and other general election news (LDN #185)
Photos from the Ed Davey campaign tour, a word of advice about the Conservative campaign and more Lib Dem news. … Read the full post »
Layla Moran was elected as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon at the 2017 general election, taking the seat off the Conservatives.
She had also contested the seat in 2015, after having previously stood in Battersea and for the London Assembly.
A former maths and physics teacher, she was the first Liberal Democrat from an ethnic minority background to be elected at a general election. (Her mother is Palestinian.)
She has been the party’s education spokesperson and was briefly arrested by the police in 2013, as she explained in a public statement in 2019.
She ran for party leader in 2020.
You can find contact details for Layla Moran here.
Photos from the Ed Davey campaign tour, a word of advice about the Conservative campaign and more Lib Dem news. … Read the full post »
Most dramatic of the Lib Dem successes was winning more seats than the Conservatives for the first time in nearly 30 years. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #183 takes a look at both lessons from the 1920s for the Liberal Democrats, and what a successful general election looks like for the party. … Read the full post »
Nine factors have been frequently present when previous Conservative eras have ended. How many are present today? … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #181 includes stories on the long-term Lib Dem plan, the role of TikTok in our politics and a bizarre Conservative solution to sewage dumping. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #179 focuses on the one – or should I say, at least one? – general election likely next year. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #178 came out last week, including news on Lib Dem councils building houses, a new move to ban conversion therapy and how party support varies by supermarket. … Read the full post »
Here’s the full text of the amendment to the King’s Speech motion in the House of Commons tabled by the Liberal Democrats regarding events in Israel and Gaza. … Read the full post »
Layla Moran’s appearance last night on Newsnight involved, among other things, a remarkably eloquent pause when asked about Suella Braverman. … Read the full post »
“For us, it is deeply personal. We are the only two British MPs with parents who grew up in Israel and Palestine” – Moran and Sobel. … Read the full post »