The councillor in charge of Shropshire Council’s finances has labelled the budget set by the previous Conservative administration as “absurd and ridiculous”.
Britain’s established mainstream political parties have spent the entire conference season promoting the Reform UK leader with inevitable consequences, writes political editor David Maddox
Torsten Bell, who became the MP for Swansea West last summer, was delivering a speech at a Labour Party conference event when he made the jibe about the Lib Dems leader's weight.
Catherine LystBBC Scotland Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell dies aged 84 Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Menzies Campbell has died at the age of 84. Ming as he was widely known, led the Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2007 and…
POLITICIANS think fast on their feet – and ex-Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell was once the quickest man in Britain. Tributes have poured in for Ming, as he was known by everyone, after he died yesterday aged 84. The man considered too old…
Olympic sprinter, barrister and long-serving MP, Ming Campbell became a respected elder statesman of the Liberal Democrats, known for his principled stance on foreign affairs and quiet authority in Westminster, writes Sean O’Grady