We keep being told that we lack the funds to do anything ambitious with our country’s future. Boris Johnson failed to deliver on ‘levelling up’. Rishi Sunak cancelled HS2. And now the Labour frontbenches tow the same line.

People often ask me over coffee or at events what the Liberal Democrats plan to do in office. My honest answer is simple: I do not know.

Britain’s adversarial parliamentary system has been conducive to a framing of our party politics as a clash between two rivals. The Conservative Party, the broad church of the right, and since the 20th Century the Labour Party as the representative of the left. Each with their own dissenters, but ultimately coalescing around a set of shared values.

I recently visited the 3 boxes full of old term cards, event posters, and Lib Dem propaganda that together form the Liberal society archives, held by the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection of Ephemera.

In yet another blunder from the Labour Government of Keir Starmer, compulsory digital ID has been announced for the UK.

Like any good Lib Dem, I have spent the summer pondering the question of what we as students and young people have lost since leaving the EU.

Last Summer, the mood at party conference was jubilant. Record election success brought us 72 Members of Parliament and offered us a vast opportunity to shape national debate and grow our party further.