The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Lib Dems: building themselves up for another fall?
The original centrist party's rampant opportunism has seen it swell its parliamentary ranks - but letting ex-Tories in might be as bad for its health as the ill-judged Con-Dem alliance of 2010, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Liberal Democrat MPs (left to right) Sir Ed Davey, Jane Dodds, Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Sam Gyimah, Angela Smith, Sarah Wollaston and Phillip Lee
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
WHILE Change UK crash and burn, the other centrist party, the Lib Dems, are making a recovery. But there are tensions and contradictions.
The coalition with the Conservatives gave some Lib Dems the ministerial posts they craved, but voters hated it — so the Lib Dems crashed from 57 to eight MPs. They were close to destruction as a party.
However, the Lib Dems have managed to recover a bit, largely by distancing themselves from the Tories, and using their opposition to Brexit to look like a principled, anti-Tory party. They have also grown in Parliament by recruiting ex-Tory MPs on the run from Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit and ex-Labour MPs fleeing Corbynism.
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