Day: 7 May 2011

I have long believed that Constitutional Reform was necessary to modernise our democracy. I look to something  beyond just the voting system. Modernisation of the Monarchy, the House of Lords, the Church of England and the way Parliament functions are all on my Agenda, which goes as far as a Written Constitution, but stops short […]

Yesterday will be seared into the Lib Dem psyche as its worst day. Black Friday. Defeat on every front. Humiliation is not too strong a word. The biggest blow is the massive rejection of electoral reform, one of the pillars of the party’s raison d’etre. Some are already suggesting the party has received a mortal blow. […]