1988-2010
Salad Days – merger twenty years on
Report of meeting of 7 March 2008, with Lord Goodhart, Lord Clement-Jones and Dr David Dutton.
Ashdown as leader
In November 2000 Paddy Ashdown published the first volume of his diaries. This article comprises two interviews with him on his period as leader.
The 2005 general election
Reviews of Andrew Geddes & Jonathan Tonge (eds.), Britain Decides The UK General Election 2005 (Palgrave, 2005), John Bartle & Anthony King (eds.), Britain at the Polls 2005 (CQ Press, 2005), Dennis Kavanagh & David Butler, The British General Election of 2005 (Palgrave, 2005), Pippa Norris & Christopher Wlezien (eds.), Britain Votes 2005 (Oxford University…
The Liberal Party and general elections
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group meeting of February 2003, with David Butler and Neil Stockley.
From Labour love-in to bona fide party of opposition
Liberal Democrat voting in the House of Commons 1992-2003.
Disappointment or bridgehead?
Liberal Democrat performance in the 2005 election.
Report: Election 2005 in historical perspective
with John Curtice, Andrew Russell and Chris Rennard.
Paddy Ashdown: The Chard Speech
Paddy Ashdown on realignment; the Guildhall, Chard, Somerset, 9 May 1992.
Michael Meadowcroft on the merger negotiations
It is difficult to realise that it is now sixteen years since the trauma and angst of the merger negotiations. As far as factual accuracy is concerned the book by Tony Greaves and Rachael Pitchford is an excellent record of the proceedings. There were only a few points of difference that I took up with…