Ed Davey’s advert for a new personal Chief of Staff has garnered a limited number of applications. Not much appetite in running the Labour meek coalition partner vehicle…
“The Chief of Staff is the Leader’s principal strategic adviser and senior aide, responsible for ensuring the effective operation of the Leader’s Office and supporting the Leader in delivering the Party’s political, parliamentary, electoral and organisational objectives.
This is a pivotal leadership role requiring political judgement, discretion, strategic oversight, and the ability to operate at pace in a complex, high-profile environment.”
Ed is looking for someone to run the entire LibDem operation with:
As of the end of Easter only 26 people had applied for the job on LinkedIn. Do you want to work for the most boring man in British poli- oh, have I lost you?
Ed Davey used one of his only two PMQs questions to accuse GB News of being “Reform propaganda“, and called for even more Ofcom censorship to stop GBN somehow “turn[ing] our great country into their vision of Trump’s America“. Just four days ago he gave a long form interview to the channel’s Chief Political Correspondent Katherine Forster, in which he repeatedly attacked Trump, insisted the US president was “out of control“, and claimed the “Liberal Democrats have answers“. This clip aired multiple times and was shared across the channel’s social media platforms to millions of people.
Apparently this is not good enough for Ed. Ofcom or even the Prime Minister needs to get involved. Forster was also the only national broadcaster to bother going to the LibDems’ spring conference. Given how terrible it was, maybe Davey wanted Ofcom to ensure absolutely no one knew it even happened…
He complains about never getting enough media coverage and then does this as soon as the mics are finally on. Even Sky News gave up. And just as he was talking about standing up to Elon Musk. It was going so well…
Zack Polanski doesn’t like to talk about his history at the LibDems. He joined them in 2014…
The Green leader stood as a LibDem council candidate in Camden’s St Pancras and Somers Town by‑election in 2015, then as a London Assembly candidate in 2016 for Barnet and Camden. So keen was he that Zack was also on party’s London‑wide list…
Polanski left the LibDems in 2017. Not before he made a speech and sang inspiration songs on their conference stage in 2015 though…
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Ed Davey has spent his conference interview with the Today Programme arguing about why it’s alright not to propose any cuts to spending at all and failing to rule out a coalition with Labour. The loony centre…
Davey’s only proposal to ‘cut spending’ was to push a move to in-person assessments for benefits, which will obviously require a large taxpayer-funded hiring drive. No surprise after the party’s joke manifesto last year…
Davey refused three times to say whether his party would enter a coalition with Labour to fulfil its ‘moral mission’ to defeat Nigel Farage. Pushed by Nick Robinson, Davey said:
“What I want to do is make sure we have as many Liberal Democrat votes and as many Liberal Democrat seats as possible in the next election.”
A Lab-Lib coalition is seen as an increasingly likely possibility come 2029. What’s worse than Keir Starmer and Ed Davey? Keir Starmer and Ed Davey in the same room…
Co-conspirators may well ask “does anyone care” when it comes to LibDem conference, although the party is eyeing more Tory seats at the next election to add to its current substantial Commons caucus. The yellow peril is the next gathering in conference season after Reform’s early start…
A conference source gets in touch to point out that former BBC man John Sweeney is promoting two events in defence of convicted nurse Lucy Letby at the conference in Brighton:
Hiya, there will be two Lucy Letby events at
the @LibDems conference in Bournemouth. The first is part of a general disco about miscarriages of justice on Saturday at the Sandbanks room in the Marriott at 2015. On Sunday at 1pm, we do a specific hour on Lucy at the Trouville…— John Sweeney (@johnsweeneyroar) September 8, 2025
The Mail and other papers continue their relentless campaign to have her convictions re-examined. The coverage never stops…
Meanwhile, ‘Migrant Voting Rights in Local Elections’ hosted by the ‘Migrant Democracy Project’ will call for “1.2 million UK residents [who] do not have the right to vote in local elections” to be given the franchise. Really reading the room…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”