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.

Liberalism, once the shining force behind Western democracy and global progress, now finds itself in a state of disrepair.

On July 5th 2024, Labour took office with a mandate to apply Value Added Tax (VAT) at the standard rate of 20% on private school fees, and to revoke the charitable business rates relief currently enjoyed by England’s fee-paying schools.