2010–2015 coalition
Was the coalition a mistake? Why did we fail to stop Brexit?
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group evening meeting, 7 October 2022, with Vince Cable and Rachel Smith. Chair: Anne Perkins
Was the Coalition a mistake? Why did we fail to stop Brexit?
Launch of Partnership & Politics in a Divided Decade, by husband-and-wife team Vince Cable and Rachel Smith. This new book tells the inside story of Vince Cable’s political career during the turbulent decade of the 2010s. The book covers Vince’s time as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Liberal Democrat –…
Tories and the Coalition
Review of Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir (Macmillan, 2016); David Cameron, For the Record (William Collins, 2019); Oliver Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
The shock of coalition
Review of Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, and Cees van der Eijk, Electoral Shocks: The volatile voter in a turbulent world (OUP, 2020).
Coalition before Party?
Review of David Laws, Coalition (Biteback Publishing, 2016) and Coalition Diaries 2012–2015 (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
Letters to the Editor
Liberal Democrats and the Coalition (Nigel Lindsay). To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Coalition: Could Liberal Democrats have handled it better?
Autumn conference meeting, 18 September 2016, with David Laws, Chris Huhne and Akash Paun; chair: Jo Swinson. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Liberal Democrats in coalition: constitutional reform
Overview by Robert Hazell. Commentaries from Matthew Hanney and Michael Steed. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Liberal Democrats in coalition: Europe
Overview by Tim Oliver. Commentaries from William Wallace and Hannah Bettsworth. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.