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Ed Davey needs a new tune to play on the Lib Dem party bus

Party can be proud of election result, but now they are back at the table they must have something to say

The Guardian - UK

The Lib Dems need a tight policy focus – but the stunts are here to stay

The general election result vindicated Ed Davey’s ease with a blunt visual metaphor, but the party also needs to distinguish itself from Labour

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey calls for taskforce to ‘winterproof the NHS’ in conference closing speech

The Liberal Democrat leader used his conference speech to urge Sir Keir Starmer to ‘make this year the last winter crisis in our NHS’

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Ed Davey reveals 'hand up cow's backside' election stunt stopped by health and safety rules

Wing walking on a biplane was among other stunt ideas ‘rejected’ during the Lib Dem election campaign, Lib Dem leader has suggested

Evening Standard

Lib Dems will 'consign Tories to history books', says Ed Davey

The Lib Dem leader, whose party won a record 72 MPs at the general election, promised to be “bolder”

Evening Standard

Ed Davey urges ‘faster and bolder’ action on NHS and social care

Leader tells Lib Dem conference the party will be an antidote to the ‘pessimism and defeatism’ of Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Watch: Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey addresses final day of Brighton Conference

Watch as Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey addressed the final day of the party's conference in Brighton on Tuesday 17 September.

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Keir Starmer and Ed Davey lead two different parties but face the same question: can the UK centre hold?

There is a clear, mutual respect between the two men who must oppose each other on one level but have comparable objectives, says journalist and author Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems hopeful of more election gains if Tory drift to right continues

Officials predict further gains if next Conservative leader focuses on winning back voters from Reform UK

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey to urge Lib Dems ‘to finish the job’ and overtake the Tories

Finishing off the Tories will be the main focus of Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s conference speech, rather than attacking the Labour government

The Independent UK

Ed Davey accuses Keir Starmer of ‘mistake’ over refusal to rejoin EU single market

Sir Ed Davey said Sir Keir Starmer’s mission to drive economic growth will be hampered by the PM’s refusal to rejoin the single market

The Independent UK

Four-week waits for GP appointments on course for record high, Lib Dems warn

The Liberal Democrats said fixing the GP crisis is critical and they are campaigning for everyone to have the right to see a GP within a week

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hopefuls focused on ‘weird’ issues, Lib Dem deputy claims

Daisy Cooper said their ‘politics is weird, their choice of issues is weird, they talk about issues that are not relevant to most people in the country’

The Independent UK

Ed Davey joins calls to let Ukraine use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia

The Liberal Democrat leader joined a growing chorus calling for a shift in stance

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Evening Standard

Lib Dems say party stunts will continue as conference gets underway

Daisy Cooper said she believed stunts ‘show you can do politics with some hope’.

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage questioned over commitment to MP role by Lib Dem chief

Wendy Chamberlain questioned the priorities for Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage, both of whom host shows on GB News

The Guardian - UK

Local insight needed to tackle tax evasion

Brief letters: Retailers and VAT | Golf-club politics | Ed Davey’s chaotic kitchen | Lib Dem leader’s multiple mobiles | Cabinet ruled out

The Guardian - UK

The Lib Dems are intoxicated by election success but they’ll need to be sober about what comes next

Is it a viable long-term strategy to press Labour from the left while aspiring to take more seats from the Tories?

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Former archbishop warns it may be ‘impossible’ to represent the Lib Dems and be Christian

As the Lib Dems gather to meet in Brighton for their annual conference, a legal dispute over the way a candidate was deselected for his Christian beliefs has seen the party disavow two of the giants in its recent history, Charles Kennedy and Shirley Williams

The Guardian - UK

‘NHS can’t wait any longer’: Ed Davey tells Labour not to delay investment

Lib Dem leader says government should use new taxes on banks and wealthy to put nearly £5bn a year into health service

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey: we can offer better opposition than ‘Punch and Judy’ Tories

On the eve of the Lib Dem conference, party leader talks up importance of social care – and being constructive

Evening Standard

Sir Ed Davey rallies his Liberal Democrat army to 'finish the job' in crushing the Tory Party

Speaking to The Standard, he says: ‘We made a massive demolition job on the Blue Wall. But there is more to go.’

The Guardian - UK

Want to know the problem, Tories? You’re … weird. And even your own tribe thinks so

The Conservative leadership race reveals a party still banging the same old drums. Natural Tory voters are looking on askance, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Independent UK

‘We must all acknowledge the part we played’: Ex-PM Theresa May leads political apologies for Grenfell

Theresa May and Keir Starmer have led political reaction to the damning report into the Grenfell disaster

Evening Standard

Ed Davey wants Lib Dems to try to block Labour's axing of winter fuel benefit to all pensioners

Lib Dem leader pushes for vote to stop ending of the payment for all pensioners on Sept 16

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