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• Confront Farage – or do our own thing? (Tony Paterson)
• Time for a Co-Presidency: Making the Liberal Democrat Presidency fit for the future (Callum Robertson and Simon McGrath)
• “Are you kidding me?” – A Response to the Lib Dem Home Affairs Spokesperson’s Response to the Labour Government (Fraser Graham)
• Dear Keir, there are other options than pandering to prejudice (Caron Lindsay)
• Ed Davey’s “Why I care and why care matters” out on 22 May (Caron Lindsay)

• Neil Alexander selected for Inverness and Nairn
• 6 reasons to read Polling UnPacked: the history, uses and abuses of political polling
• Another way of looking at the local election results
• Welcome immigrants (2)
• West End weekly ward surgeries tonight #dundeewestend
• Lib Dems set up 'Reform watch'
• Alistair Carmichael: Labour is falling into the same trap the Tories did on immigration
• Mr Starmer, when did you abandon reason for madness?

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