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It is an irony not lost on me that on the way down to a Transport for the North meeting in Leeds this morning, my bus was twenty minutes late and my connecting train has been cancelled.

This was the Ouseburn pollution debate I was blocked from contributing to on Wednesday because Labour Councillors would rather go home. 1/2 chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

Should we book an Oasis tribute band to play *our* Heaton Park next summer - just for the lols?

“Now supports”. Bit late, eh?

Peter Allen is the new councillor for Newcastle's North Jesmond ward, securing a commanding win for the Liberal Democrats in the seat vacated by the popular Gerry Keating chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

Don’t necessarily agree with the rhetoric or the policy outcomes (and certainly not some of the conclusions), but this is a pretty reasonable analysis of where the Tories went wrong: didn’t speak to the moderate voter, didn’t deliver for the partisan.

Starting the morning off right with a little freshener along the seafront before Liberal Democrats conference!

🚨 NEW: Ed Davey arriving in Brighton for the Lib Dem Party Conference on a jet-ski with new Lib Dem MPs

Delighted to speak this afternoon on Liberal Democrats Conference’s motion on Supporting Disadvantaged Children, an incredibly important topic and close to my heart politically and professionally. #LDConf

Welcoming 72 Lib Dem MPs to conference

"Can you actually get heard, though?" asks Laura Kuenssberg. Slightly odd question given that is something entirely within the gift of the media itself — and on present form, they seem to have entirely ignored the fact that the Lib Dems are the largest third party in a century.

Packed room the NEU fringe on education priorities for the new Parliament. #LDConf

Can Ed Davey name as many of his 72 MPs as possible while on a roller coaster with Matt Chorley? 🎢 Check this ride out 👍 Listen to Matt Chorley weekdays 2-4 on BBC Sounds 🎙️

North Yorkshire has the joy of overlapping both ITV Yorkshire & Humber and ITV Tyne Tees 📺 I spoke with ITV Tyne Tees about👇 🥁 Banging drum as the only Lib Dem MP in our part of the country 🧡 Why I got involved in politics 🔶 Ed Davey’s and other MPs stunts

The SNP chose to use parliament's time today to debate independence. There are so many more issues crying out for attention in parliament, access to GPs and Dentists, sewage dumping in our rivers, the drug deaths emergency. Those are the issues Lib Dems would give attention to.

Cllr Kemp has made the right decision: his position was looking increasingly untenable. But the key questions remain: who knew what, and when? Labour must agree Newcastle Lib Dems 🔶’s urgent independent inquiry to get to the bottom of the political culture that got us here.