Liberal Democrats

UK Covid: 31,117 new cases as research suggests vaccines have prevented 60,000 deaths in England – as it happened

Latest updates: new infections rise second day in a row; figures came ahead of publication of Public Health England’s latest vaccine surveillance report

Andrew Sparrow

29, Jul, 2021 @4:31 PM

David Kohler obituary

Other lives: Researcher at the Community Relations Commission in the 1970s responsible for changes to the Race Relations Act of 1976

Phil Kohler

29, Jul, 2021 @9:52 AM

Anger over Sajid Javid’s advice to not ‘cower’ from Covid

Bereaved families, Labour and Lib Dems all condemn health secretary’s ‘insensitivity’

David Connett

24, Jul, 2021 @11:08 PM

UK government opening floodgates to Covid variants, MPs warn

Cross-party group says proportion of positive tests analysed for variants among red list arrivals has plunged

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

23, Jul, 2021 @4:42 PM

‘Not cricket’: Lib Dem Chesham victor says Tories recoiled from Johnson

Sarah Green’s explanation of her shock byelection victory has some troubling themes for the PM

Peter Walker Political correspondent

01, Jul, 2021 @1:08 PM

A shift on aid hints British voters are finally tiring of the politics of spite | Zoe Williams

Opinion polls show support for maintaining overseas aid is growing – and the government can no longer afford to ignore it, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams

28, Jun, 2021 @3:10 PM

Here’s how a progressive alliance would actually work | Neal Lawson

We have two years to create a coherent approach that appeals to non-Tory voters, who are the majority in Britain today, who are the majority in Britain today, says author Neal Lawson

Neal Lawson

24, Jun, 2021 @12:26 PM

Conservative MPs put pressure on government to scrap planning reforms

Labour has called new bill a ‘developers’ charter’, while Tories fear it cost them the Chesham and Amersham byelection

Aubrey Allegretti

21, Jun, 2021 @7:27 PM

A Labour/Lib Dems alliance could defeat the Tories in seat after seat | Simon Jenkins

The Lib Dems should disband, or step aside in winnable seats in return for a government role, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins

21, Jun, 2021 @1:50 PM

Ministers urge Boris Johnson to consult cabinet on key decisions

Embattled prime minister pressed to abandon top-down approach to government as difficult autumn nears

Jessica Elgot

20, Jun, 2021 @7:18 PM

All in all, is Chesham and Amersham just another brick in the ‘blue wall’? | Letters

Letters: Pete Dorey thinks the middle class feel increasingly alienated, betrayed and frightened, while Andrew Grant-Adamson believes anti-government votes are consolidating behind the candidate most likely to win. Plus letters from Jeremy Beecham, Stephen Jakobi, Derek Schofield, Daniel Scharf and John Whitfield

Letters

20, Jun, 2021 @5:28 PM

Boris Johnson under growing Tory pressure over planning reforms

Conservatives urge prime minister to change course ahead of debate and in wake of shock byelection defeat