A Week in Politics #8
Julie Calder (Photo: Scottish Lib Dems) Here is another weekly round-up of the news, this week with far more jeers than there are cheers. Cheers for Julie Calder, our fantastic candidate in Wick and East Caithness who won a fantastic victory with a massive 50.4% of first preference votes – 20% up from 2022 - and in the SNP council leader’s own ward, too! A thoroughly welcome result and a reminder that local campaigning deserves its place alongside the Westminster headlines. Congratulations to everyone who knocked on doors, delivered leaflets and helped get voters to the polls. Cheers to Andy Burnham for probably the most positive conference speech from a serving Prime Minister in living memory. Yes, I would have liked to hear a little more detail on some proposals… but overall Lib Dems should be broadly supportive because he was articulating the kinds of things Lib Dems want to hear. Cheers – cautiously – to the Labour Party for finally committing to a Commission for Electoral Re...
