Fears over Lib Dem revoke pledge

Liberal Democrat party leader Jo Swinson. ‘The problem is that the new leader, like her predecessor, lacks basic political intelligence,’ says Prof Tom McAlindon. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAAs a Liberal Democrat supporter, I regret to say that if another election takes place the party is almost certain to limp home as a weak third, relying pathetically on disaffected members of the Tory and Labour parties for any improvement in its representation (Liberal Democrats pledge to scrap