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I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended."

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for the Government to block Tesla contracts after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at a rally this weekend.

#Newsnight

Just a reminder: the queue of MPs from both main parties defecting to the @libdems.org.uk in 2019 got barely a mention by most media.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

While Donald Trump has attacked wind farms during his Scotland trip, only 24% of Britons share the president's view that they are unattractive - 28% think they look good, while 41% think they look neither good nor bad

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

A fantastic result for the Cardiff @libdems.org.uk team - puts us well on track to winning in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf next May!

Welsh Tory Laura Anne Jones defects to Reform Senedd politician Laura Anne Jones has defected from the Tories to Reform, Nigel Farage announces.

✅️ racism scandal
✅️ expenses scandal
✅️ not going to get re-elected as a tory

Makes for the perfect Reform recruit 🤣

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Expenses probe into Laura Anne Jones reopened after being dropped An expenses investigation into Laura Anne Jones was closed before being reopened, the BBC has been told.

Why do Reform UK defectors from the Conservatives, always have something dodgy about them?

Laura Anne Jones, MS:

Police reopen dropped probe into politician

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pssst, political commentators - there's a different political realignment going on...

Once again, it's the @libdems.org.uk that successfully manage to beat a strong Reform challenge.

Tories and Labour... not so much.

Worth noting that Reform's candidate was the previous independent.

Diolch! Ymgeisydd Reform oedd yr ymgeisydd annibynnol tro diwethaf na'th bron ennill yr ail sedd, felly lot o gefnogaeth personol iddo. Ond dal...

@markpackuk.bsky.social @electionmaps.uk @britainelects.com

A Welsh Lib Dem HOLD tonight in Llanidloes, Powys - holding off Reform and Plaid in a very hard-fought campaign.

Lib Dem 557
Reform UK 551
Plaid 225
Con 118
Labour 112
Ind 6

Llongyfarchiadau to new Cllr Fleur Frantz-Morgans, Glyn Preston and the whole Maldwyn team!

Reform's Darren Grimes Accused of Lying After Police Deny Telling Him Not to Hold Council Surgeries for 'Security' Reasons EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader's claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents

Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".

The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...

BBC breaking news alert that reads "Why Reform was the other big winner in Hamilton by-election"

BBC once again failing the 'stop making everything about Reform' challenge

By-election results:

(A) Labour gain Scottish Parliament seat
(B) Lib Dems gain overall control of Wokingham

Looking forward to the punditry on how these results are all about Reform doing well.

Welcome!

On International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, I want to say to the LGBT+ community:

I hear you, I get it, I stand with you, and the Liberal Democrats will never stop fighting to build a country and a world where you are truly free to be who you are.

Trans councillor who quit Labour over anti-trans stance joins the Lib Dems A councillor who quit Labour after saying the party throws "trans people under the bus” has defected to the Lib Dems, PinkNews can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE for @pinknews.bsky.social this morning 🚨

Trans Plymouth City Council councillor Dylan Tippetts, who said Labour is
"throwing trans people under the bus", has joined the Lib Dems.

He is now the sole Lib Dem councillor in the city council.

Read: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/15/l...

This guy votes on our laws. 🤦‍♂️

"People who vote Labour expect Labour to deliver for them and they're simply not seeing that and the winter fuel payment cut has become emblematic of that."

Sarah Olney

Your front page graphic on the local election results (1 May, print edition) omits the party that finished second but includes those that finished third and fourth. You wouldn't publish a Premier League table and omit Arsenal, so why leave out the Liberal Democrats? Yours sincerely, Mark Pack

A letter to The Guardian.

Ed Davey with a crowd of Lib Dem supporters. Captioned with 'We are the antidote to Reform's hate and division'

We know the threat Reform poses – to our communities, our democracy and our precious liberal values. We know where their divisive, destructive brand of politics could lead.

Other parties can't or won't stand up to them. It's up to us to be the antidote to Reform's hate and division.

"If you're worried about the rise of divisive populist politicians like Donald Trump and like Nigel Farage, it will be the Liberal Democrats standing up for true British values."

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Good job we didn't do anything to fundamentally worsen our relationship with the EU in the past decade... right?

Right?!

I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the #LGBTQ+ community over what the Supreme Court judgement means for them are not yet being addressed. I have written to the Government asking them to make clear how trans and non binary rights will be protected.

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...