Themes: Leaders
Religion and politics
Review of Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK Publishing, 2019).
Asquith vs. Lloyd George
Report of evening meeting (online), 1 February 2021, with David Laws and Damian Collins MP; chair, Wendy Chamberlain MP.
William Ewart Gladstone
Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.
Jo Swinson as leader
Interview with Jo Swinson on her period as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat leadership performance
Comparative table of leadership performance updated to 2020.
Lloyd George and an Anglo-Irish centenary
Text of an address to mark the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Old heroes for a new leader
Liberal Democrat leadership candidates’ historical heroes.
Lloyd George and money
Review of Ian Ivatt, The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George (Welsh Academic Press, 2019).
CB
Review of Alexander S. Waugh, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: A Scottish Life and UK Politics 1836–1908 (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019).