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...He would take some convincing on entering a formal coalition with Labour, given the party’s near-death experience after sharing power with David Cameron’s Conservatives in 2010....
...Labour received £12mn in the same six-month period, including £2mn from Lord David Sainsbury, former chair of the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain....
...The endless carved nudes, Venus in her shell, David.”...
...Ed Davey and Mark Pack, the party’s president, are both incredibly seasoned campaign veterans who have seen that movie before....
...It has delivered the kind of David vs Goliath battle that this year’s football FA Cup has notably failed to produce....
...Davey, who is fuelling up before knocking on constituents’ doors with candidate Sarah Dyke, is confident about the party’s prospects of winning back a seat that was held by the popular Lib Dem MP David Heath...
...Victory by his party would show local voters are “fed up with being taken for granted” by Sunak and his government, Davey added....
...Davey’s locker Why am I at the Liberal Democrat conference?...
...The Liberal Democrats won Somerton and Frome in Somerset with a swing of 28 per cent, giving party leader Sir Ed Davey hope of securing more Tory seats in the south-west....
...“It would be irresponsible and deeply unfair for the government to increase people’s energy bills now,” Davey said....
...The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, responded to the news of Vitol’s profits by calling for the UK’s windfall tax to be extended to energy traders....
...Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, would almost certainly insist on the delivery of electoral reform as a price for any deal, after the party’s unhappy experience in coalition with David Cameron’s Tories...
...He also plans to write to Starmer and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey over the recess and hopes to meet both in the autumn....
...The only person more excited about this by-election than Ed Davey is me, because there are not one but two restaurants in the Michelin guide in the constituency....
...A report on education by former cabinet minister David Blunkett last year said only that Labour should ensure “any policy change on university tuition fees in England supports and incentivises flexible,...
...As I wrote a few days ago, Ed Davey’s leadership of the third party is a steady-as-she-goes, gradualist affair....
...Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat leader, is meanwhile confident of making further inroads into affluent Tory areas of the south....
...Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats, did not mention “Brexit” at all in his biggest speech of the autumn, making only a reference to the need to remove red tape “strangling trade...
...Former Conservative prime ministers Liz Truss and David Cameron were among the first to send their congratulations to Rishi Sunak after Tory MPs backed the former chancellor to become the country’s first...
...Davey has suggested expanding a windfall tax on energy companies and using higher VAT receipts to help pay for it....
...Last month Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, and Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, called for the energy price cap to be frozen at its current level and released plans explaining how this could...
...Well, on a yellow tractor, of course, if you’re Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey. Ed DaveyAnd I brought my tractor along....
...He declined to rule out a formal coalition with Labour — mirroring the pact with David Cameron’s Conservatives in 2010 — although some senior Lib Dem figures believe a less formal deal would be more likely...
...And I was struck that Davey claimed that Labour has nowhere near as ambitious a plan to restore relations with the EU as the Lib Dems do....
...But Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey called for a “much tougher windfall tax to get the funds to help millions or people through what will be the toughest winter in generations”....
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