New publication: What can the Lib Dems learn from their past by-election gains?

British politics is at an unusually fluid time; and the recent run of strange by-election results has given much food for thought. I've just published The Richmond Park By-Election in Perspective: Lessons from Liberal, Social Democrat and Liberal Democrat By-Election Gains, through the Social Liberal Forum, putting Lib Dem election prospects in a longer-term context - this was mostly written over Christmas, but held over for revision in light of last week's Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent by-elections. In the event, I've only had to make the lightest of tweaks, and with a new by-election now due in Manchester Gorton, my thoughts on whether Lib Dems and Greens should stand down in favour of each other in a handful of ad hoc local agreements have just become even more topical...