Elections
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Elections 2007
Analysis of the outcomes of the local, Scottish and Welsh elections of May 2007. What do they mean for the Liberal Democrats?
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Hold on, hold out; we are coming
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
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Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
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Hastings in 1900
The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.
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The 2001 election
Examination of the Liberal Democrat performance in the election of 7 June 2001, with lessons for the party’s future strategy.
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Election 2010 in historical perspective
The 2010 election must rank as one of the strangest in the history of the Liberal Democrats or its predecessor parties. Britains first-ever television debates saw the party catapulted into the front rank of news coverage. Yet after successive opinion polls regularly showed the Lib Dems in at least second place, the result was a…
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Report: 1906 remembered
Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.
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The 2010 election
Has the mould of British politics finally cracked?
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The 1908 Hastings by-election
The story of the first by-election to be fought after the introduction of the Liberal government’s 1908 legislative programme.