Menzies Campbell Articles

This book is the third in an impressive series on political leadership in Britain’s mainstream parties which we owe to an imaginative initiative of Charles Clarke’s. Though the books make good reading for anyone interested in politics, this sustained reflection by...

A Liberal Democrat collapse might not bring Labour all that it hopes, suggests Robert Philpot In the early 1950s, surveying the wreckage of the once-great party he led, Liberal leader Clement Davies admitted that people would ‘come to the conclusion that there is no...

The future of the United Kingdom, the economy placed on negative outlook, visits to the Vatican, Paris and Edinburgh – parliament may have been in recess last week but politics continued apace. They return to Westminster today facing a packed parliamentary agenda, not...

Like free trade in the 19th century and the Irish question 100 years ago, the Europe problem is now going to dominate parliament until the next election and perhaps much longer. As MPs mull over what has happened there are 10 aspects from the crisis over British...