Coventry North East), a former Defence Secretary, said the Government should make it clear to Iran “that all options for addressing the issue remain on the table.” They set out their position in a House of Commons amendment which was also backed by MPs...

No matter what Cameron promises, the slippery Salmond will portray him as a remote Tory Toff, says an editorial in The Daily Mail. That is why the Prime Minister "must build a cross-party alliance" of politicians such as Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown,...

Nick Clegg said last week that all ‘options remained on the table’, refusing to say Britain would not be part of any military action. That position was roundly criticised yesterday by fellow Liberal Democrat Menzies Campbell, who told The New...

Now, speaking to the New Statesman, senior Lib Dem MPs have expressed their opposition to military action and urged Clegg to uphold his party's manifesto. Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and foreign affairs spokesman, told me: Military...

There was the infamous cabinet table row with Cameron and Osborne over dirty tactics in the AV referendum, the attack on the Conservative's "Goebbels-like" campaign against the alternative vote, and ill-tempered scraps with Nick Clegg and Menzies...

The promotion of Davey from a role as a business minister raised fears among some campaigners that the agenda might lose out to Treasury cuts under his command. A note of caution was also sounded by former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell against...

Indeed, the former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell has already warned that his party’s credibility with its already truculent activists will be severely damaged if it bows to Tory pressure to downgrade green policies and thus provide further ammunition...

The demands from Conservative MPs, made in a letter to David Cameron, came as a former Liberal Democrat leader, Menzies Campbell, warned that there would be serious trouble from his party’s activists if there was any rowing back from the coalition’s...

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell has warned that his party's credibility will be severely damaged if it bows to Tory pressure to downgrade green policies following Chris Huhne's resignation as energy secretary. With many rightwing Conservatives...

Pair will appear before magistrates on February 16Offence typically carries a prison sentence of more than two yearsFellow Liberal Democrat minister Ed Davey announced as replacement The feud between Energy Secretary Chris Huhne and his economist...

Born on Christmas Day 1965, the 46-year-old served in a variety of influential roles for the Liberal Democrats after his election as an MP in 1997. He was chief of staff to former leader Sir Menzies Campbell and was appointed as the party's foreign...

No-one could accuse Chris Huhne of lacking ambition. Within months of arriving in Parliament in 2005, the Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh was challenging for the leadership of his party, after the resignation of Charles Kennedy. He lost out to Sir Menzies...

Minister backed down to appease Nick CleggWarning Britain could be stripped of AAA credit rating David Cameron was praised by senior Liberal Democrats yesterday for giving ground on Europe at a summit in Brussels – bringing an angry response from Tory...

Britain and the Czech Republic are the only EU nations not in the new pact. Mr Cameron accepted at Mondays EU Brussels ­summit that EU institutions could be used as long as ­Britain was not affected. Mr Cameron also faced the embarrassment of being...

Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, welcomed the Prime Minister's actions at “a much more successful and satisfactory summit” than the previous one. In a sideswipe at Tory Eurosceptics, he said the EU should focus on jobs and growth, not...

Mr Cameron has attempted to portray himself as more engaged in the runup to this summit than he was to the one in December, no doubt partly at Liberal Democrat insistence. But the outbreak of Cameronian pragmatism which Sir Menzies Campbell and Simon...

Amid some anger on the Tory right over Clegg's tactics on the EU, the former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell praised the prime minister for re-engaging with Britain's European partners. The easing of tensions between the coalition partners over...

Nick Clegg, unlike then, was sat next to the Prime Minister as he gave his statement to the Commons this afternoon. And the questions that followed from the likes of Menzies Campbell and Simon Hughes were generally warm and approving. Campbell started...

Charles Kennedy MP President, European Movement, Lord Inglewood, Lord Brittan, Lord Kinnock, Lord Liddle, Baroness Williams, Lord Dykes, Baroness Quin, Lord Berkeley, Menzies Campbell MP, Dennis McShane MP, Sheila Gilmore MP, Robert Buckland MP, Neil...