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...The £1mn donation came in over the weekend, the Lib Dems said, and was a legacy donation following the death of a wealthy solicitor and property owner named John Faulkner....
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...At a fringe event at the start of the conference Sir John Curtice, the polling expert, made the case for the Lib Dems being a bit bolder on Brexit, since the polls showed that pro-Remain voters have swung...
...Pollster Sir John Curtice argued at a fringe event that the Lib Dems were losing ground to Labour because they were not taking a strong stance on rejoining the EU....
...Several senior party insiders said they felt Davey could be more confident in presenting this position, given concern voiced by pollster Sir John Curtice that the Lib Dems could lose pro-EU votes to Labour...
...Troubled waters over oil One striking feature of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget was that he was more preoccupied with the Liberal Democrats than he was the SNP, attacking Ed Davey’s party directly during his speech...
...The psephologist Sir John Curtice has pored over last month’s results in battleground areas, combined with how people voted in the 2016 referendum and what they now think about it....
...So hi, John. John Burn-MurdochHello. Thanks for having me....
...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....
...Sir John Curtice, an elections expert at Strathclyde university, extrapolated from the local results a projected UK national vote share of 35 per cent for Labour, 26 per cent for the Tories and 20 per cent...
...His voice can be wobbly these days; on really bad days, he resembles a seal doing an Elton John impersonation....
...National Grid’s John Pettigrew, Chris O’Shea of Centrica and ScottishPower head Keith Anderson were among chief executives who met Kwarteng, according to people close to the talks....
...Sir Ed Davey’s party hopes to make further inroads into Tory territory on Thursday....
...Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the results had given him a “Cheshire cat” smile....
...Sunak urged struggling Britons to hold their “nerve” with interest rate rises, which Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey branded “patronising advice”....
...Empathy is a delightful quality and it’s one that the gifted Scottish travel-writer Peter Ross shares with that prince of church-crawlers, the poet John Betjeman....
...Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the figures showed the Conservative government had made a mistake by selling off the GIB six years ago....
...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, the Lib Dem leader, campaigned on Friday in Raab’s seat, which the Tories held at the last election with a slim 2,743 majority....
...And if they can just repel people from Keir Starmer and the Labour party, that will, you know, fix their Ed Davey problem kind of for itself. Miranda Green There are a few caveats we should mention....
...“The truth is Brexit is now probably less popular than it has been since June 2016,” the pollster Sir John Curtice said in November....
...You can easily imagine this line of attack against Truss’s plan coming from Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Ed Davey or John McDonnell....
...As I learned from this marvellous Gramophone piece by film-maker Tony Palmer, during that tour Stravinsky asked Palmer if he could help arrange a meeting with John Lennon....
...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....
...Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: “Companies like Centrica should be reinvesting their profits and supporting their customers, not buying back their own shares.”...
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