Alan Butt Philip says Wales is stronger when working with the rest of Europe Welsh Liberal Democrats have stressed their "positive" approach, as their biggest campaign for a European election entered its last days. Meeting farmers at Welshpool cattle market, lead ...Read More
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, hit the nail on the head with his call for the speech to be cancelled and replaced with emergency reforms that stood a chance of becoming law before the election. He accuses Labour of using ...Read More
Gordon Brown should scrap this week's Queen's Speech because it is a 'waste of everyone's time', Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said today.
Few of the Bills to be announced by the Queen on Wednesday stand any chance of becoming law ...Read More
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A suspected suicide bomber struck apolice post in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, killing atleast four people in the second attack there in two days.
Three people were wounded in the bombing, police officerSaheb Zada said in a ...Read More
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A mayor who publicly opposed the Taliban was killed in a suicide bombing in a cattle market near the northern city of Peshawar on Sunday, officials said, in an apparent attempt to curtail grass roots opposition to ...Read More
At least 10 people have been killed and at least 20 injured in a suicide bomb attack near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
The blast ripped through a busy cattle market on the outskirts of the city.
Reports say ...Read More
Nick Griffin is complaining he had faced a 'lynch mob'
Peter Hain says his fears have been proved right after a poll suggested support for the BNP has risen after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time.
A YouGov poll in the ...Read More
A protest was staged outside BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast
Protests against BNP leader Nick Griffin's Question Time appearance have been staged in Belfast and Londonderry.
About 100 anti-fascist protesters were involved in a stand-off with 10 BNP supporters outside Broadcasting ...Read More
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, closed his party's last annual conference before the general election by insisting his sights were set on becoming the next prime minister. Clegg said the Liberal Democrats were the natural recipients of the votes of ...Read More
Nick Clegg appealed directly to undecided voters today by pitching to become the next Prime Minister as he tried to deflect attention from a discordant pre-election conference. The Liberal Democrat leader claimed his party was now the dominant force in progressive ...Read More
Nick Clegg's big speech is the main event. Can he draw a line under what has been, at times, a difficult week for him? Can he lift the spirits of the party faithful as they prepare for general election battle? ...Read More
Vince Cable faced a mutiny by his own colleagues yesterday after the party’s new tax policy led to accusations that the Liberal Democrat star performer is high-handed and uncooperative. In another awkward day for the party, Nick Clegg also faced defiance ...Read More
Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, said that the tax he wants applied to the most valuable houses could be "rolled over" from year to year and then taken from someone's estate after death. Dr Cable said his plan for ...Read More
Nick Clegg said Green voters should turn to the Lib Dems Backing the Green Party at the next general election would be a wasted vote, Nick Clegg has said. The Lib Dem leader told a fringe meeting that the Greens could ...Read More
The Liberal Democrats today pledged a tax raid on wealthy homeowners. Vince Cable said he would introduce a new tax levy on homes worth more than £1 million. The Lib Dem Treasury spokesman claimed that the property tax would raise enough ...Read More
Liberal Democrat activists would overwhelmingly prefer their party to enter a coalition government with Labour rather than the Tories, according to a poll published today. Fewer than one in five said that they would want to see Nick Clegg team up ...Read More
Homeowners with properties worth more than £1m will be liable for a new 0.5% tax under new plans set out by the Liberal Democrats today. The levy would be used to cut tax for 4 million low paid workers by raising ...Read More
Homeowners in properties worth more than £1m would face a new tax under Liberal Democrat plans to rebalance the tax system by targeting the rich. In a rebuff to David Cameron, a day after he said there was not a "cigarette ...Read More
50 (-32) Lembit Opik Opik stepped down as housing spokesman to contest the presidency of the Lib Dems, which he lost to Baroness Scott. A recognisable media commentator, his reputation took something of a beating over his relationships with weather presenter ...Read More
Travel to jobs by hire car by Welsh civil servants cost £5m over five years The costs of hire cars for Welsh civil servants are to be reviewed as details emerge of £5m spending over five years. The Welsh assembly government ...Read More
The clip called 'Brownfall' shows the Prime Minister as Hitler with a running commentary to his reaction to the European Election results, Labour's worst defeat in 99 years. In the video, which contains some foul language, Brown is told that "The ...Read More
