2010-2015
Liberal Democrats in coalition: education
Overview by Simon Griffiths. Commentaries from David Laws and Helen Flynn.
Liberal Democrats in coalition: economic policy
Overview by Matt Cole. Commentaries from Vince Cable, Jo Swinson and David Howarth.
Coalition and the Liberal Democrats: the policy record
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal.
Coalition: Could Liberal Democrats have handled it better?
The 2015 election decisively ended the Liberal Democrats’ participation in government. Did what the party achieved in coalition between 2010 and 2015 justify the damage? Could the party have managed coalition better? The meeting marks the publication of the autumn Journal of Liberal History, a special issue on the policy record of the coalition. Speakers:…
What did the SDP bequeath to the Liberal Democrats?
An examination of the legacy of the Social Democratic Party.
Report: Catastrophe: the 2015 election campaign and its outcome
Evening meeting of the Liberal History Group, 19 July 2015.
Coalition and the 2015 election
Targeting and its effect on Liberal Democrat performance in the 2015 general election; Can Liberals learn from history?
Comparing coalitions
A comparison of the coalition with the Scottish experience of 1999–2007; and a look at parallels from history.
The 2015 election campaign and its outcome
Analyses of the election result, and a look at what happened to the party’s campaigning machine.