Tony Blair is making life difficult for pro-Europeans, Sir Vince Cable tells the Standard But for the snap election, Sir Vince Cable would have been in training this weekend for the national ballroom dance championships.
This report relates to the meeting of the Federal Policy Committee which took place on 13th September 2017. The committee had not met for a few months. Its last meeting, which was scheduled for 12th July 2017, had been cancelled. There was therefore quite a lot to catch up on. Vince Cable Update on Priorities It hardly needs saying but, since the last meeting, a new Leader has taken over. Vince Cable attended the meeting to update the committee on his priorities.
Last September, Nick Clegg and Miriam González Durántez's son Antonio was diagnosed with blood cancer. They tell their story and explain the importance of research. Antonio, our eldest son, was 14 when we first spotted a small, entirely painless lump in his neck.
There are more road crossings on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic than on the entire Eastern border of the European Union. Actually, there are 275 Irish border crossings, compared to 137 from Finland to Greece, according to figures obtained by my Alliance colleague Stephen Farry MLA. That emphasises why the Irish border is such an issue for Northern Ireland, for the UK and for Ireland. Yet the Government's "Position Paper" on Northern Ireland and Ireland is woefully inadequate, failing to deal with issues of both trade and justice co-operation.
Hooray! Another initiative from new Liberal Democrat members: this time a new podcast, called Liberated. Created by Laura Sheeter, it kicks off with an interview with Vince Cable (and hooray to him too for saying yes to being interviewed). It's great to see the plans she mentioned when we chatted a few weeks ago hitting iTunes for real.
The Lib Dems have never been needed more than they are today - but if we want to face up to that challenge, we're also going to need to do better than we've ever done before.