Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable is to step down as an MP at the next election, the party has announced. The news will spark a scramble for Cable’s Twickenham seat, with newly-defected Lib Dem MPs Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston thought likely to be at the head of …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1051/29400 From The Socialist newspaper, 31 July 2019 New Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, photo by David Spender/CC (Click to enlarge) James Ivens, East London Socialist Party The Liberal Democrats, Britain’s most shopworn and undeservingly smug little bosses’ party, have elected a new leader. Jo Swinson …
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