Caron Lindsay

I had a tear or too yesterday when I saw Yi-Pei Chou Turvey MSP become the first British politician to receive the European Liberal Forum’s “Rising star” award. It is fantastic to see her recognised for her work on Aberdeenshire Council at the start of her term as the North East’s Lib Dem MSP. Sal Brinton was there and sent me this video of the event and Yi-Pei’s speech. Yi-Pei said: I am humbled and honoured to receive this award on the 50th anniversary of ALDE.

Party President Josh Babarinde wrote to all members and on this site this week inviting us to share our views on the development of the party strategy which will be debated at our Brighton Conference in September. The consultation process involves a Typeform which has to be completed by this Thursday and 3 online consultation sessions over this weekend.

I’ve had a look at the King’s Birthday Honours list this morning, searching under “political service” and “local government”. I’ve only found two Lib Dems so far. That doesn’t mean that I’ve found everyone, so please, hive mind, let me kmow who I’ve missed. Lib Dems may be honoured for things that aren’t politics. And indeed, this was barely published when I discovered a third, honoured for non Lib Dem reasons. And the Noble Lord Packula found another I didn’t know about.